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Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes
by GREENAWAY, Kate
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [circa 1940s]. Reprint. Small octavo (16.5cm); glazed pictorial paper over boards, quarterbound in green cloth; 52pp. Comprehensive toning and foxing; boards and dustwrapper soiled; dustwrapper extremities and hinges chapped, with some chips to top edges; inner wrapper price-clipped with ownership signature; sticker on ffep; else Very Good.
This reprint of a 1918 edition of Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose is difficult to date. With the dustwrapper price-clipped and no identifying marks from the publisher, one must turn to the engraver's credit: Edmund Evans Ltd., with the address the firm used c.1940 to 1950. In any case, devotees of the renowned English illustrator will enjoy her beautifully illustrated Mother Goose melodies; all the classics are here, as well as some of the more obscure rhymes such as "Tell Tale Tit" and "Elsie Marley
This reprint of a 1918 edition of Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose is difficult to date. With the dustwrapper price-clipped and no identifying marks from the publisher, one must turn to the engraver's credit: Edmund Evans Ltd., with the address the firm used c.1940 to 1950. In any case, devotees of the renowned English illustrator will enjoy her beautifully illustrated Mother Goose melodies; all the classics are here, as well as some of the more obscure rhymes such as "Tell Tale Tit" and "Elsie Marley
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47045
- Title
- Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes
- Author
- GREENAWAY, Kate
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. [circa 1940s]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Illustrators;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...