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DARTON (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER) Songs for the Nursery, Collected from the Works of the Most Renowned Poets, and Adapted to Favourite National Melodies, William Darton and Son, 58, Holborn Hill, [c.1830-1835] image 1
DARTON (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER) Songs for the Nursery, Collected from the Works of the Most Renowned Poets, and Adapted to Favourite National Melodies, William Darton and Son, 58, Holborn Hill, [c.1830-1835] image 2
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DARTON (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER)
Songs for the Nursery, Collected from the Works of the Most Renowned Poets, and Adapted to Favourite National Melodies, William Darton and Son, 58, Holborn Hill, [c.1830-1835]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DARTON (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER)

Songs for the Nursery, Collected from the Works of the Most Renowned Poets, and Adapted to Favourite National Melodies, 5-pages of publisher's advertisements at end, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates (imprint dated 15 June 1818), 2 shaved at one margin, cloth, printed label (scuffed) on upper cover, covers detached, contents loose, lacks spine, 16mo (127 x 100mm.), William Darton and Son, 58, Holborn Hill, [c.1830-1835]

Footnotes

SCARCE EDITION. The plates, which first appeared in Darton's 1818 edition of Songs were "the first full-page illustrations of nursery rhymes" (Opie). Our copy collates [3], 4-59, [5], with the plates bearing the date 15 June, 1818 on imprint. Worldcat records a different collation for the undated issues by "William Darton and Son"

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