Nursery Rhymes: A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales and Jingles, illustrations by Sir John Gilbert John Tenniel Harrison Weir, Walter Crane and others, George Routledge and Sons, 1877, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout including some full page, some occasional spotting, finger soiling and a few small marginal splits, pp. 81-82 near detached and a little frayed at extremities, final leaf slightly soiled and frayed at edges and rehinged with slight paper loss to inner margin, old pencil ownership name of Kathleen Hollis to front pastedown, contemporary green half morocco, slightly rubbed and soiled on upper cover, spine darkened, 4to A seemingly very uncommon edition of this book published under this title for the first time. The copy in the Osborne collection has a coloured frontispiece using the same illustration as here. (1)
Nursery Rhymes: A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales and Jingles, illustrations by Sir John Gilbert John Tenniel Harrison Weir, Walter Crane and others, George Routledge and Sons, 1877, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout including some full page, some occasional spotting, finger soiling and a few small marginal splits, pp. 81-82 near detached and a little frayed at extremities, final leaf slightly soiled and frayed at edges and rehinged with slight paper loss to inner margin, old pencil ownership name of Kathleen Hollis to front pastedown, contemporary green half morocco, slightly rubbed and soiled on upper cover, spine darkened, 4to A seemingly very uncommon edition of this book published under this title for the first time. The copy in the Osborne collection has a coloured frontispiece using the same illustration as here. (1)
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