[Rarebooks] FS: Comprehensive Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $125   Now  $60:

OPIE, Iona and Peter (editors). THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NURSERY RHYMES. 
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. First Edition. Blue cloth; 467 pages. A 
comprehensive classic illustrated with numerous plates. "This Dictionary 
brings together more than 500 rhymes and songs traditionally handed on 
to young children, and studies their individual histories; their age, 
origins, first appearances in print or manuscripts, oral and written 
developments, literary associations, social uses, variations, and 
parallels in other languages.... The illustrations, of which there are 
nearly a hundred, include reproductions of early appearances of the 
rhymes in ballad sheets and music books, and show the course of nursery 
rhyme illustration in children's literature through the past two 
centuries." Light foxing to endpapers, small owner's initials on front 
endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good dustwrapper.         
$60.00

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