Starry flag ABC book
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: McLoughlin Bros
Published: 1899
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Copyright date: 1899
Subjects: English language; Juvenile literature; Alphabet; Alphabet books; Specimens; Flags; Fourth of July; Juvenile fiction
Other titles: Starry flag A B C
Notes: Title from upper wrapper.

Pagination includes wrappers.

In addition to the main sequence of words illustrating the alphabet (each with accompanying illustrations and capital letters decorated with the stars and stripes), the volume also contains interspersed alphabet jingles, spelling lessons, lists of words of varying lengths, and a short tale about "Some Fourth of July boys."

In publisher's color printed pictorial wrappers; title on upper wrapper with gilt lettering and portrait of boy in sailor suit about to hoist the American flag; image on lower wrapper of three children, two girls flanking a boy holding the American flag.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.