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Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.3 .M85 1987 copy 2 bk.1-3
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901, illustrator.
Sardo, Douglas.
Tehon, Atha.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Mother Goose.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Nursery rhymes.
Children's poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
Tehon, Susan (donor)
Physical Description:
3 volumes : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Dial Books for Young Readers, [1987]
Summary:
Fifteen traditional nursery rhymes accompanied by twenty-three previously unpublished watercolor illustrations are presented in three board books in a slipcase.
Contents:
Book 1: Little Miss Muffet; Ride a cock-horse; Draw a pail of water; Polly put the kettle on; Rock-a-bye, Baby
Book 2: Humpty Dumpty; Jack Sprat; Little Bo-Peep; Tom, Tom, the piper's son; Little girl, Little girl
Book 3: Mary, Mary, quite contrary; Johnny shall have a new bonnet; Little boy blue; Cross-Patch, draw the latch; Ring-a-ring o'Roses.
Notes:
"The drawings that illustrate these volumes are from Kate Greenaway's sketchbook for her Mother Goose, first published in England in 1881. The sketchbook is in the Arents Collection of the New York Public Library"--Slip case.
"Designed by Douglas Sardo"--Slip case.
"First Printing."
Local Notes:
Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 housed in slip cases.
Tehon Collection copy 2 has stamp "Dial Design Library. Do not Remove" on slip case.
ISBN:
0870994913
9780870994913
0803704798
OCLC:
19867701

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