The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book – Opie, Iona and Peter (assembled by)

From the flap: “… offers a full repository of the nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradion.” Over 800 rhymes and songs, lullabies and dandling rhymes, toe rhymes, catches, charms, traditional street cries, riddle verses, and humorous folk ballads. 600 illustrations, many of which are evocative woodcuts as well as engravings by Thomas Bewick and his pupils. Accompanying these are 150 designs by Joan Hassall. A mild spot of foxing to feps. 223 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Reprint with corrections. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Foxing to covers and verso. Some edge-wear and sunning. Price clipped. Hardcover. Blue boards with mild edge-wear and evidence of insect nibbling to the boards.

Publisher: The Clarendon Press
Date Published: 1960
Publication Place: Oxford

Condition: Good+.
Binding: Hardcover. Blue boards with mild edge-wear and evidence of insect nibbling to the boards.
Has Dust Jacket: Yes
Jacket Condition: Fair to good. Foxing to covers and verso. Some edge-wear and sunning. Price clipped.