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Mother Goose's Rhymes / c.1914
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Size |
[64] p., [1] leaf of plates : col. ill., music ; 21 cm
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Catalog Notes |
Some verse include directions for games that can be played while reciting the rhymes. Cover title varies: Mother Goose's rhymes in colors. Imprint statement transcribed from upper cover. Running title: Mother Goose's melodies. "No. 147.--Mother Goose's chimes [sic]--colored by mail 25 cents size, 7 x 8 inches[.] This book contains 64 pages."--McLoughlin Brothers' eighty-sixth annual catalogue of paper and linen toy books, 1914, p. 30. Ad bears a picture of the book (three men sailing in a bowl on cover) that matches the issue in hand. Pagination: 65-126, 129, 128 [sic]. Text is complete. Cover and title plate chromolithographed. Textual illustrations printed in color by a relief process (zinc etching?). Each page has a printed color border. Title plate signed by S.S. Haley and "E. Nister" (i.e., lithographer Ernest Nister?). Textual illustrations variously signed by "Dalziel," "HF" (i.e., Harry Fenn?), and "Arnold sc."
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Library/Archive |
American Antiquarian Society
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Copyright and Source Archive |
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Catalog Record Note |
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