Lavender’s Blue. A Book Of Nursery Rhymes.
£20.00
Publisher
Oxford University Press.
Place
London
Date
1960
Synopsis
Compiled by kathleen jones and pictured by harold jones. reprinted.
Item Description
4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. 180 pp. Decorative borders to each page. Bound in quarter cream board over stiff card boards. Spine sunned and extremities a little worn and rubbed; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Decorated by vignette title and by vignettes on opening pages. Pictorial endpapers. A much praised classic collection of nursery rhymes, compiled by Kathleen Mary Lines (1902-88), a Canadian editor and anthologist, specialising in children's literature. Copiously illustrated by the artwork of Harold Jones (1904-92), artist, writer of children's books and a prolific illustrator, including three dust wrappers for titles by H. G. Wells. Lavender's Blue was his most acclaimed work. Third reprint of title first published 1954.
[Stock No. 29549]
