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RHYMES FROM NURSERY LAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 580079
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A Father Tuck Little Book. Small format. Colour illustrations. Very slight bumping to top and tail of spine and rubbing to edges. Contents are fine. Pictorial wrapper is rubbed to edges.

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IN NURSERY LAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 580080
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A Father Tuck Little Book. Small format. Colour illustrations. Slight bumping to spine. A few brown marks/some light foxing to covers. Contents are fine. Pictorial wrapper is a bit rubbed at edges.

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WHERE DO HEDGEHOGS GO?
Written by Celia Burley. Illustrated by Celia Burley.
Stock no. 428225
Published by Two Crows Books. 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Simple text. SIGNED by author on title page. Bumping to base of spine. Small inscription in ink on front pastedown (From previous owner). Contents are bright and clean.

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THE CLEVER LITTLE TAILOR OR SEVEN AT A BLOW
Written by Frederick B. Saywell. Illustrated by Herbert J. Harvey.
Stock no. 576357
Published by Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd.. Very good condition.

'Versified' by Frederic B. Saywell. 12 very nice tipped-in colour plates, mounted on card. Borders and decorations to each page. Black cloth, gilt. Book: book plate to front endpaper. Corners bumped and rubbed.

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SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES
Written by Eleanor Smith. Illustrated by Florence Young; S.B. Pearse; Kathleen Nixon.
Stock no. 575842
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1922. Slightly better than good condition.

Large format. Light brown cloth spine. Paper boards with pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates. One plate missing. Frontis has margin tears repaired with tape. Corners rubbed. Contents bright and clean.

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NURSERY RHYMES WITH SAUC(E)Y ENDINGS
No author listed. Illustrated by E. Dorothy Rees.
Stock no. 990430
Good condition.

12 page pamphlet, original card wrappers. 12 colour plates by E. Dorothy Rees. Traditional nursery rhymes adapted to include references to H. P. Sauce. Contents very good but disbound. Corners worn. Address in ink to inside of front cover. Covers slightly grubby.

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MERRY CONCEITS AND WHIMSICAL RHYMES
Written by Charles H. Ross. Illustrated by Charles H. Ross.
Stock no. 619929
1883. Fair condition.

Pictorial paper boards, red/brown cloth spine. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Colour illustrations. 62 pages. Cloth spine split at edges, covers worn. Both joints and first & last hinge repaired with tape. Heavy foxing.

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PLAYTIME & COMPANY
Written by E.V. Lucas. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 614184
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Green pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Rhymes for children. Corners rubbed. Spine faded. Rear cover grubby. Contents clean.

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PLAYTIME & COMPANY
Written by E.V. Lucas. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 656846
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Green pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Rhymes for children. Boards edge-worn and grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

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THE HOLE AND CORNER BOOK
Written by B. Parker. Illustrated by N. Parker.
Stock no. 622119
Published by W. & R. Chambers. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards show family of rabbits peeping from covers. Brown & white illustrations. Animal rhymes. Covers lightly scuffed. Edges rubbed & worn. 1" and 0.25" loss of surface paper from base and top of spine. Cloth at base of spine split. Pale foxing throughout. Overall, a nice copy.

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A BUSHEL OF MERRYTHOUGHTS
Written by William Harry Rogers. Illustrated by Wilhelm Busch.
Stock no. 668728
Published by Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1st 1868. Fair condition.

Four works in one volume. Contains: The Terrible Punishment of the Naughty Boys of Corinth; The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar-Bread; Cat And Mouse; The Fearful Tragedy of Ice-Peter. Reprinted in 1900 as A Book of Merry Thoughts. Oblong format, pictorial front board, green cloth spine. Comical b/w illustrations accompanied by hunourous verse. The book has been repaired with all pages having reinforced hinges. Page 13 of Cat and Mouse is missing as it is from all copies. Covers are worn and chipped at edges and badly scuffed to rear. Extensive foxing and grubby marks throughout with pencil drawings and annotation mainly on blank pages. Despite all this it remains a readable copy of a scarce Victorian book.

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NICHOLAS BENTLEY'S BOOK OF BIRDS
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 666622
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Avian Alphabet. B/w pictures. Humourous rhymes. Spine a little bumped, slight fading to boards. Wrapper edge-worn and grubby. Contents fine.

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