St Marys Books

This fabulous collection of Nursery Rhymes all with hand coloured plates, to which is added, the popular ditties ... : also, the Beggar's petition, My father, My mother, My sister, My brother : riddles, enigmas, charades, conundrums, moral maxims and sentences, easy poems, selections from Kirke White ... [et al.] Bound in quarter cloth binding with  mustard coloured boards, with title of the book listing the contents etc. A collection of chap books bound in the publishers original binding, needing some restoration to the spine. With rich hand-coloured illustrations running through the book, some loss to the odd illustration. 122 pages of illustrations some with more two or three illustrations on one sheet, this fabulous collection with the following Rhymes, Pat A Cake, Sing A song of Six Pence,  London bridge if Broken Down,  The Death and Burial of Cock Robin, The Adventures of Dame Trot, The history of the House that Jack Built, The Adventures of Jack and Jill and old Dame gill, The Adventures of Tom The piper's Son, The life and Death of Jenny Wren, The Pence table in verse, The Juvenile numerator or the infant's 1st step to Arithmetic, The Butterfly's Ball, A good copy with most plates in good complete condition the odd illustration with repair, the binding is a little weak & the spine is detached on one side, this can be restored, by our binder. We can only locate two copies being sold via Sotheby's in the 1960's and late 1970's, Only one copy of the third edition listed in Oxford, with only 12 copies listed in libraries around the world.