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The Children's Press. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket No date stated. Reading copy only. Lacking backstrip. Gifter's inscription on front pastedown. (childrens, folktales, short stories)

London & Glasgow, Collins' Clear-Type Press, (1928).. FIRST EDITION (1928), large 8vo, 250 x 180 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, in original publisher's blue cloth, gilt ruled border to upper cover, central gilt vignette of Mother Goose, gilt title above, gilt lettered spine with goose vignette, 160 pages. Beautiful pictorial endpapers in pink and grey (rear endpapers bound in upside down), a total of 8 charming vignettes tinted pink and pale blue to prelims, a pink and blue pictorial headpiece to the 5 pages of Foreword, 8 excellent coloured plates on coated paper, including frontispiece, plus line drawings to every page, many full page, many humorous, many young children and babies. Contents: 84 Nursery Rhymes, 44 Proverbs and 21 Rhyme Games and Counting out Rhymes. Spine faded (gilt bright), very slight wear to head and tail of spine with 2 tiny nicks to cloth, minute bump to top corner of upper cover, very slight wear to corners, slight uneven fading to lower cover, slight faint foxing to fore-edges, faint… Read More