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Mother Goose Or The Old Nursery Rhymes
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Sub Collection |
Important Authors/Titles/Illustrators
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Size |
52 p., [2] leaves : col. ill. ; 17 cm
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Additional Notes |
Illustrated By Kate Greenaway
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Catalog Notes |
With illustrated half-title: Mother Goose. The phrase "and New York" is transposed in imprint statement transcription; the phrase appears below "Frederick Warne and Co." on title page. Frederick Warne & Co. was founded July 1, 1865; see Arthur King and A.F. Stuart, The House of Warne (1965), p. 3. The firm's name changed to Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. May 25, 1919; see King & Stuart, p. 57. Mother Goose or The old nursery rhymes was first published in 1881; cf. Oxford companion to children's literature (1984), p. 227. Catalog record in OCLC describing a copy held at Cambridge University having the same printed boards binding as that of the copy in hand has a publication date range of between 1882 and 1917. "Copyright all rights reserved"--verso of illustrated preliminary leaf. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. at the Racquet Court Press, London, S.E."--colophon, recto of final leaf, following p. 52. Illustrations printed by a relief process.
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Library/Archive |
American Antiquarian Society
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Copyright and Source Archive |
Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved.
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Catalog Record Note |
Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved.
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