The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book
Opie, Iona and Peter Opie
| Publication Date | 1963 |
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| Publisher | Clarendon Press, |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Very good copy in good+ dust jacket |
| SKU | 27068 |
| Notes | Binding is faded and the gilt is very rubbed. Scratched and scuffed externally with a faint scattering of minor marks. Faint inky finger marks to endpapers. Text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. xi,224pp. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt dancing cat to spine. 800 rhymes. Many collected here for the first time. 600 illustrations many of which are taken from the original illustrated chap books and similar and include work by Thomas Bewick and his pupils. With 150 additional illustrations by Joan Hassall. Sources of the illustrations and Index of first lines and popular titles.
