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Folio Society (2016). 280 pages. Hardback in mustard slipcase. Bound in metallic cloth blocked with a design by Debra McFarlane. Set in Founder’s Caslon. 107 black & white integrated illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke; 6 colour illustrations by Debra McFarlane. Printed endpapers. Metallic coloured tops. Size: 10˝ x 7½˝.
Description
To read the old Nursery Rhymes brings back queer lost memories of a man's own childhood. One seems to see the loose floppy picture-books of long ago, with their boldly coloured pictures. The books were tattered and worn, and my first library consisted of a wooden box full of these volumes. And I can remember being imprisoned for some crime in the closet where the box was, and how my gaolers found me, happy impenitent, sitting on the box, with its contents all round me, reading.
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First published in 1897, this is a lively collection of nursery rhymes, both familiar and little known, selected by Andrew Lang, the acclaimed folklorist and editor of the Rainbow Fairy Books.