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BABY'S OWN ANNUAL 1936
No author listed.
Stock no. 1108859
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1936. Good condition.

Large format. Stiff cardwraps. Nursery rhymes, ABC, reading primer. Covers grubby and worn at edges. Inscription in ink to top of verso of front cover. A few pencil scribbles. Contents have a generally grubby appearance.

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THE FRANK ADAMS BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Frank Adams.
Stock no. 1309671
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations throughout. Spine bumped, corners worn. Covers edge worn and slightly damp stained. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint cracked. Crayon marks and a patch of surface paper damage to top margins of a couple of pages. Some light fingering.

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NURSERY RHYMES AND PROVERBS
Written by Marjory Hood. Illustrated by Marjory Hood.
Stock no. 1309208
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine, blue and yellow pictorial boards. Beautiful colour plates. Spine bumped and rubbed, corners worn. Light mark to top edge of front cover. Endpapers lightly browned and a couple of small glue spots to both pastedowns. Some foxing else contents clean.

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MOTHER GOOSE'S NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by John Hassall.
Stock no. 1207358
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1909. Good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Colour plates. B/w illustrations. 364 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Front joint cracked wide but binding is holding tight. Front endpaper detached but present, worn at edges. Small inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Two illustrations loose but present. Two tiny patches of susrface paper loss to one colour plate ('And Shot his own Sow') and also King Cole Calls For His Fiddlers. Margins of plates a little grubby. One b/w illustration is partially messily coloured in (pg 73) with yellow pencil, also couple of lines to margins of pg 90, 183-185, 193, 207, 308. Large margin tear to one page plus a few small page edge tears. Foxing thoughout, some heavy. Top and tail of spine and corners bumped and worn. Rear board stained.

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CECILY PARSLEY'S NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1108305
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1922. Almost very good condition.

Red boards, pictorial onlay to front cover. White titles to front cover and spine. 52 numbered pages. 5 x 4.25". Fading to spine and some cover edges. Scuffing to covers, with a few marks. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; nicks to corners of spine. Grubby marks and foxing to endpapers and some pages internally; odd corner or page crease.

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NICOLA BAYLEY'S BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1307490
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

Nicola Bayley's first book. Favourite nursery rhymes illustrated by glorious full-colour pictures. Dark blue glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0224011731. Spine and corners bumped. Some erased pencil writing to top margin of title-page. Some very light foxing. Contents clean.

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DITTIES FOR THE NURSERY
Written by Iona Opie. Illustrated by Monica Walker.
Stock no. 820373
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Some of the rhymes that delighted children in the reign of George III. Dark blue cloth, gilt title and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Front board bowed. Fading to edge of pink endpapers. Text block a little dusty else contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is faded and edge-worn with loss.

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OUR OLD NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Alfred Moffat. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 379320
Published by Augener Ltd.. 1st 1912. Very good condition.

De-luxe edition limited to 450 copies. Cream vellum binding, gilt titles, pictorial onlay to front cover. Very pretty illustrations in delicate pastel colours. Oblong format. All edges gilt. Rhymes set to music. SIGNED by illustrator. Covers ever so slightly marked, corners a little bumped and rubbed. Ties missing. Endpapers heavily foxed. Grubby fingermarks to some page margins but generally contents clean. A nice example - copy no. 4.

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THE 'AFTER YOU' STORY BOOK
Written by Agnes Grozier Herbertson; Fay Inchfawn; et al. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert; Hilda Cowham; W. Heath Robinson; et al..
Stock no. 588143
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. 1st 1921. Good condition.

One of a series of four story books, each with 6 colour plates and scores of illustrations. This one has very pretty pictorial boards showing a little boy peeping from behind a tree at a little girl sitting eating an apple. Pictorial endpapers by W. Heath Robinson. Front endpaper shows characters from fairy tales, rear endpaper characters from nursery rhymes. Red cloth spine with black titles. 10x8". Spine is a little grubby. A few scuff marks to covers. Corners are bumped and worn. Foxing to outer page edges. A few closed margin tears. One hinge pulled. Five of six colour plates missing. 4 b/w illustrations have been coloured in.

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LAUGH AND LEARN
Written by Jennett Humphreys.
Stock no. 584798
Published by Blackie & Son. 1890. Slightly better than good condition.

The Easiest Book of Nursery Lessons and Nursery Games. From learning to readand to count, playsongs, rhymes and jingles to indoor diversions and nursery drill with music. Brown pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. Contents very good. Front joint split. Spine split. Corners worn.

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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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LITTLE SONGS OF LONG AGO
Written by Alfred Moffat. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 508200
Published by Augener Ltd.. Circa 1915. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Dark yellow cloth, oval pictorial onlay to front cover. Delightful colour illustrations. Traditional nursery rhymes with music. REDUCED from £160. Damp mark to corners of cloth covers. Contents bright and clean. Pictorial wrapper is torn and creased, with some loss, mainly to rear corner edges.

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