"Picture alphabet interspersed with basic reading exercises. Peter G. Thomson was active as a printer, publisher, and bookseller in Cincinnati from 1877 until 1889. See Walter Sutton, The western book trade, (1961), p. 339. McLoughlin Brothers bought Thomson out of the picture book business in 1884; see Robert J. Buck, Trailblazers of the Thomson Gamble family (1948), p. 15. Pages [1] and [12] designed to look like a colored wrapper. Illustrations chromolithographed. "New picture books for little children. ..."--publisher's advertisement, p. [12]."