MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES. Proverbs and Rhyme Games. by ROBINSON, Charles (illustrator). Foreword by Laurence Alma Tadema.:

London & Glasgow, Collins' Clear-Type Press, (1928).. FIRST EDITION (1928), large 8vo, 250 x 180 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, bound in original publisher's light blue cloth, single gilt ruled border to upper cover, gilt vignette of Mother Goose in centre, gilt title above, gilt lettered spine with tiny vignette of goose, 160 pages including prelims. Beautiful pictorial endpapers by Robinson in pink and grey (rear endpapers bound in upside down), a total of 8 charming vignettes tinted pink and pale blue to prelims, a pink and blue pictorial headpiece to the 5 pages of Foreword, 8 excellent coloured plates on coated paper, including frontispiece, plus line drawings to every page, many full page, many humorous, many young children and babies in Robinson's inimitable style. Contents: 84 Nursery Rhymes, 44 Proverbs and 21 Rhyme Games and Counting out Rhymes. Spine faded (gilt bright), very slight wear to head and tail of spine with 2 tiny nicks to cloth, minute bump to top corner of upper cover, very slight wear to corners, slight uneven fading to lower cover, slight faint foxing to fore-edges, faint trace of old ink price on front endpaper, pencil name mostly erased from verso, faint foxing to half-title, very little to title page and rest of prelim pages, occasional pale fox spots, 4 facing pages faintly foxed all over, slight pale browning to inner folds next to stitching. A very good plus sturdy clean copy. Reprints were issued in the 1930s in pictorial boards by Children's Press in various formats usually with a cover designed by a different artist. De Freitas page 87; Cotsen Children's Library 20th Century, No. 9391, a reprint with only 4 colour plates. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.