Learning To Read, frontispiece

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Frontispiece for Learning to Read from Jacob Abbott’s “The Little Learner” series, published in New York by Harper & Bros., 1855. The image resembles the frontispiece for Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-book. Held at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 23h2776.

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In a sitting room, a mother gently wraps her arm around a girl, drawing her close while directing her attention to the book held between them. Many early literacy books featured mother and child reading lesson images like this one.

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    Jacob Abbott, Learning to Read, The Little Learner (New York: Harper & Bros., 1856).
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    Courtesy of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
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    public domain