Buy this book on-line OPIE,IONA & PETER - ed by: : THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NURSERY RHYMESUK.OXFORD.O.U.P,1952. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.(True 1st was published a year earlier,1951,this edn,1952,with corrections.)VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Red+
black pictorial illustrated upper panel, black letters to spine/backstrip and red+
black letters for publisher's adverts to rear panel.Minimal shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges with top two corners minisculely rubbed with concommitant loss;
two tiny wear/rubbed holes to bottom 1/3rd
of front edge of inner flap - no other nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip slightly darkened with light bumping and concommitant creases to both head+foot of same.Rear panel lightly grubbed and bottom
edges of dw/dj also lightly darkened.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and aged with minimal spotting;fore-edge cleaner, but also lightly aged and minimally spotted, contents bright, tight and clean.Both top+fore-edges are trimmed, but bottom edge is deckled (untrimmed).Clean, publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip - a single, horizontal line at head+foot, with publisher's gilt printed colophon to foot, with plain, white eps with some minimal foxing to pastedowns and
some light off-set foxing to eps from dw/djs' inner flaps.Both bottom corners are lightly bumped but the others are unaffected.8vo,i-xxvii+1-467pp includes b/w illustrated frntis, title+half-title pages, authors's preface, contents+
illustrations lists, abbreviations, intro (pp1-45.), 500+ alphabetically arranged rhymes+songs, profuse contemporary b/w line illus, 24 b/w plates reproducing contemporary ballad sheets and music books, 2 indices (index of notable figures
associated with the invention, diffusion or illustration of nursery rhymes + index of first lines.) and fascinating and interesting footnotes.
This classic dictionary brings together more than 500 rhymes and songs traditionally handed on to young children,
and studies their individual histories, origins, first appearances inprint or manuscript, oral and written development, literary associations, social uses, variations, and parallels in other languages.A general introduction describes
the different types of rhymes, the earliest collections made of them, and the
theories which have been advanced about their origin;and discusses such particular questions as the possibility that they originally portrayed real people, how they achieved their present-day popularity,and who was 'Mother Goose'.
Assembled in this volume is almost everything known about the subject,
together with the results of original research especially undertaken for the work.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 (then 1952).A heavy tome,check for P+p quotes/
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