The Inside Story of the Elizabeth Nesbitt Room
History of the Horn-Book

22) Now we turn to some of the books themselves. The History of the Horn-Book is a landmark work in two volumes published in London in 1896. A limited number of copies had a concealed pocket at the back holding facsimiles of hornbooks and a battledore, the tiny so-called "books" that were a child's bane or blessing for centuries as they learned their ABC's and the Lord's Prayer.