THE BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES by Jerrold, Walter - 1920

London: Blackie & Son, 1920. A very scarce edition dating we believe to around 1920 (gift inscription dated 1921), beautifully produced with fabulous illustrations. 320 pages; 19 plates (inc. title page and frontispiece) of which 6 in full colour and 13 printed in black, grey and pink tones; b/w line drawings throughout some full-page. Original dust jacket chipped to the head of the front panel otherwise a little gentle wear and rubbing, lightly marked, a couple of old sellotape marks to the underside. Publisher's cloth backed boards with colour on-lay to the front board, very good and bright having been protected by the dust jacket. Contents clean and tight, neat gift inscription to the front end paper, slight browning to front hinge; a little offsetting from frontispiece to title page, pages remarkably clean and crisp. A very good to fine copy in a good dust jacket. [Bibliographic note: we can find very few references to this edition and none which refer to a dust jacket'; the auction house Dominic Winter sold a copy - Lot 180, June 21, 2007, which made £340 but without a jacket and the condition not as good; they suggested it was a first edition and described it as an "unusual variant binding - usually found in red cloth".]. Various. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Charles Robinson. 4to (20 x 25.5cm).