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Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013. hardcover: 8vo and clamshell box in cloth; miniatures in silk. 8vo: 8.5 x 6.75 inches; miniatures: 3.625 x 2.25 inches.Clamshell box: 7.5 x 13 inches. hardcover: 8vo and clamshell box in cloth; miniatures in silk. xv, 121 pages; facsimiles: 68, 66, 66 pages. Limited edition of 500 copies of this boxed set which includes Alderson and Immel's scholarly work on the history and legacy of Tommy Thumb's Pretty Little Song Book (two volumes), and The Pretty Book, that includes full-size facsimile editions of each of the eighteenth-century originals. The text of the three miniature books were engraved in by George Bickham, Jr. (1706-1771) and contain the earliest printed collection of English nursery rhymes. The Pretty Book exists in only one copy; only two exist of Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. This publication brings these 3 classic works to a wider twenty-first century audience for the first time. The tenuous existence and diminutive size of Tommy Thumb's…
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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book: The First Collection of English Nursery Rhymes (4 Vols.) Hardcover - 2012
by TOMMY THUMB'S PRETTY SONG-BOOK: THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ENGLISH NURSERY RHYMES (4 VOLS.) -
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- Title Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book: The First Collection of English Nursery Rhymes (4 Vols.)
- Author TOMMY THUMB'S PRETTY SONG-BOOK: THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ENGLISH NURSERY RHYMES (4 VOLS.) -
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition BOX PCK MI
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill Academic Pub
- Date 2012
- ISBN 9780615678764
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TOMMY THUMB'S PRETTY SONG-BOOK, THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ENGLISH NURSERY RHYMES, A FACSIMILE EDITION WITH A HISTORY AND ANNOTATIONS
by Immel, Andrea and Brian Alderson
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