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<dl><dd>Listed in the English catalogue, under Meiklejohn, at 5s., or the 2 pts. separately at 3s 6d. each, dated 1884-5; according to Massé and Osborne pt. 1 was published in 1884, pt. 2 in 1885</dd>
<dd>Meiklejohn's 13-step "Method of Teaching the Golden Primer" on both front and rear endpapers within ornamental borders</dd>
<dd>Text in brown with color illustrations on facing pages</dd>
<dd>Illustrations: Preliminaries in brown; color t.p. with a pictorial scene of apple-picking children in blue, red, green and yellow, signed with Crane's glyph; and full-page, color wood engravings throughout, most signed with Crane's crane glyph</dd>
<dd>Both covered in buff paper-covered boards, decorated with a "Part I" (on part 1) and "Part II" (on part 2) brown pictorial design of a boy climbing a ladder into an apple-tree on upper and lower covers, signed with Crane's glyph; white endpapers patterned with a sepia design; a.e.g</dd>
<dd>The golden primer part i. -- The golden primer part ii</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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<dl><dd>Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1830-1902</dd>
<dd>Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. ill</dd>
<dd>Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905. egr</dd>
<dd>William Blackwood and Sons. pbl</dd></dl></div>
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