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The Royal Picture Alphabet

by John Leighton

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John Leighton (1822-1912) who wrote under the pen name Luke Limner was the author of The Ancient Story of the Old Dame and Her Pig (1847), London Cries and Public Edifices (1847), London Out of Town (1847), Our Tom Cat and His Nine Lives (1848), Money: How Old Brown Made it, and... Spent it (1850), Christmas Comes but Once a Year (1850), The Rejected Contributions to the Great Exhibition (1851), Suggestions in Design (1852), The Royal Picture Alphabet (1856), Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion (1870) and Paris Under the Commune: The 73 Days of the Second Siege (1871).

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