The old nursery rhymes, or, The merrie heart / by the editor of "The old fairy tales."

Accession number: 
PML 88761
Published: 
London ; Paris ; New York : Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [187-]
Description: 
[4], 225, [5] pages : illustrations, some color ; 17 x 13.5 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes: 

"The Merrie Heart, Being a Charming Collection of the old Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Short Tales. Illustrated with Eight full-page Coloured Plates from Designs by Walter Crane, and 100 Illustrations by Ernest Griset, F. Barnard, and others"--publisher's advertisement
Publisher's advertisements on last four pages.
Eight full-page color illustrations, including frontispiece, some signed W.C.
Black-and-white wood engraved illustrations and vignettes in the text, some signed E, G. or Fr. B.; attributed in some contemporary notices to J. Swain.
"London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Works, Ludgate Hill, E.C."--colophon

Binding: 
Publisher's pictorial green sand grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind; with bevelled edges.
Variant Title: 

Merrie heart

Provenance: 
Lincoln Kirstein.
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