An A B C For Baby Patriots (1899): English Imperial Glory For Beginners

Published in 1899, Mrs. Ernest Ames’ An ABC for Baby Patriots inducts the Great British baby in the ways of the Great British Empire. The book, which was – get this – printed in Holland (not part of the British Empire), was both written and illustrated by Mary Francis Ames (1853-1929), authors of such patriotic tomes as Wonderful England!: Or, The Happy Land (1902), The Great Crusade: an alphabet for everybody (1903), and illustrator for her husband’s work How the Boers Were Beaten (1900).

 

Via Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature