An Animal ABC

Title

An Animal ABC

Description

English book illustrator Harry B Neilson’s characters in the turn of the century Animal ABC book appear naturally undressed in the black and white pages but are wearing human clothes in all of the color illustrations.

Edward F. Ellis worked at the Buffalo Public Library at one time and, as collector, he amassed a vast collection of ABC books over the years. When he died in 1983, approximately 434 ABC books were books donated to the public library. Since 1984, the Ellis ABC Collection has grown to more than 700 American and International books from 1793 to the present.

Date

[1900?]

Subject

Source

Children's Books

Publisher

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)

Rights

Digital image copyright 2020 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Relation

Digital Collections of the B&ECPL

Type

Text

Format

image/jpeg

Language

Collection

Citation

Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), 1861- , illustrator., “An Animal ABC,” B&ECPL Digital Collections, accessed October 7, 2024, https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/2087.