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Popular nursery tales and rhymes / with one hundred and seventy illustrations by Harrison Weir, Absolon, Corbould, Zwecker, H.K. Browne, Wolf, &c., &c. ; engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1859 Popular
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Genre:
- Nursery rhymes.
- Nursery stories.
- Children's stories.
- Children's poetry.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 312 p. : col. ill. (wood-engravings) ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Nursery tales PPA
- Place of Publication:
- London ; [New York] : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farrington Street, and Walker Street, New York, [1859 (London : Camden Press, Dalziel Brothers, Engravers & Printers])
- Contents:
- Old Mother Hubbard and her dog
- Simple Simon
- Little Bo-peep
- Jack and the bean-stalk
- The frog who would a-wooing go
- The marriage of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
- The death and burial of poor Cock Robin
- The house that Jack built
- Sing a song of sixpence
- Tom Thumb
- The three bears
- The brave little tailor
- Cinderella, or, the little glass slipper
- The old woman and her fig
- The babes in the wood
- Old Mother Goose
- The daisy and the lark
- Goody Two Shoes
- The fox and the farmer
- The leaden soldier
- Whittington and his cat
- The young Linnets
- The straw, the coal, and the bean
- The robin redbreasts
- The wolf and the seven young kids
- The diverting history of John Gilpin
- The wolf and the fox.
- Notes:
- Date from "Advertisement" (i.e., Foreword), p. [v]-vi.
- Printer from printer's insignia on t.p. verso.
- Hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, included in pagination.
- Publisher's device on t.p.
- Athenaeum copy: Contents from running title.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Enchanting Simplicity: Children's Book Illustration Past and Present" at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2009.
- Athenaeum's copy lacks title page through p. 4, and p. 311-; this may be the wrong edition.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Peter J. Koblenzer.
- OCLC:
- 32389288
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