The Oxford Dictionary Of Nursery Rhymes

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. Second edition, with corrections. Hardback, bound in the original cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. 22.5 × 14.5cm, xxvii +467pp. This copy belonged to folklorist Francesca Claremont, and is signed by her to the ffep. She had pasted in relevant newspaper clippings and made some marginal notes throughout.… Read more about this item

Book Club Associates, London, 1977. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. preface and introduction by Editors, Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of abbreviations, and index of first lines. The text is illustrated with reproductions of numerous contemporary drawings. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip.… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Slight bubbling to the cloth and a little foxing to the endpapers, else near fine without dustwrapper. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

London: Oxford University Press Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. (1966), xxvii, 467pp, index of first lines, illustrated. Exlib non-circulating, stamp at top page edges and title-page, tape and sticker remains, light wear and soiling, else VG. From the preface: "For the first time Nursery Rhymes have been arranged alphabetically to facilitate easy reference. Most of the rhymes, we believe,… Read more about this item