Mother Goose : the old nursery rhymes / illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, illustrator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mother Goose. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursery rhymes.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 262 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Manufacture:

Bungay, Suffolk : R. Clay and Sons, Ltd. Brunswick Street, Stamford Street.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Century Co., [1913]

Notes:

With half-title.

"This edition is limited to one hundred and fifty copies."

T.p. contained within single-rule border featuring black and white silhouettes of children.

Colored plates mounted on brown art paper with captioned tissue guards. There are numerous black and white illustrations throughout.

"There are many more Nursery Rhymes than are included in this book, though I think most of the best known are here. I have chosen those I knew and liked best in my own nursery days, and I have kept to the versions that I was familiar with."--Foreword signed A.R.

Contains index.

Bound in white cloth with gilt decorations on front cover and spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt.

This edition is identical to the signed limited English edition of 1130 copies, save for the New York imprint and the much smaller limitation of 150 copies.--Cf. Latimer & Haskell.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 86 signed by Arthur Rackham.

Culture Class Collection copy has copy of color plate "As I was going to St. Ives" which contains a self-portrait of the artist taped to the front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Latimer & Haskell, 40

OCLC:

868021434