THIRTY OLD-TIME NURSERY SONGS ARRANGED BY JOSEPH MOORAT AND PICTURED BY PAUL WOODROFFE
New York: T.C. & E.C. Jack /Frederick A. Stokes, Co., 1907. Hardcover. Quarto 12 in. x 9 1/2 in. Extraordinarily beautiful cover depicting a black cat cellist dressed in Edwardian clothing, a blind mouse playing his squeeze box, a mouse flautist, and several frog fiddlers. Some handwritten inked notes to preliminary pages, and previous owner's name and date (Esther Paxton, Christmas 1909) written in pencil to front free endpaper. Decorative endpapers show two large groups of rats, at a tug of war contest. 34 pages. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE MAGNIFICENT! Good Plus. Item #88177
Contains favorites like: Old King Cole; Girls and Boys Come Out To Play; Hey Diddle Diddle; Jack and Jill; Humpty Dumpty; Sing a Song of Sixpence; Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Litle Bo-Peep; Tom, Tom The Piper's Son; Three Blind Mice; A Fox Went Out; Yankee Doodle; Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, and many more!
Price: $55.00