THE HISTORY OF GILES GINGERBREAD, A LITTLE BOY, WHO LIVED UPON LEARNING

by Tom Trip, John Newbery

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First edition

York: J. Kendrew, circa 1825 . First edition thus, from York publisher J. Kendrew, of the story of a little boy learning to read with the help of a molded alphabet book made of gingerbread. Very good. Item #44920 A book made of gingerbread is the ultimate in ephemeral publications. Gingerbread hornbooks were a time-honored way of encouraging literacy in early modern England, and are the central mode of how little GILES

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