Tommy Thumb's pretty song-book : the first collection of English nursery rhymes : a facsimile edition with a history and annotations / by Andrea Immel & Brian Alderson.

Author
Immel, Andrea [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Los Angeles : Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013.
  • ©2013
Description
cloth box containing 4 volumes (xv, 1 unnumbered page, 121 pages, 1 unumberered page ; 4 unnumbered pages, 59 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 2 unnumbered pages, 64 pages ; 2 unnumbered pages, 64 pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm

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Summary note
Accompanying volumes are facsimiles of three of the earliest extant English nursery rhyme books.
Notes
  • Tommy Thumb's pretty song book / by Andrea Immel & Brian Alderson measures 22 cm, while 3 miniature facsimile titles are each 92 mm.
  • "This edition ... has been printed in an edition of 500 copies."--Colophon.
  • Issued in clamshell box (33 x 19 x 4 cm).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Binding note
Individual titles in publisher's gilt-stamped embossed cloth, within a gilt-stamped lavender cloth-covered box.
Contents
Tommy Thumb's pretty song book / by Andrea Immel & Brian Alderson.--Tommy Thumb's song book : for all little masters and misses : to be sung to them by their nurses, until they can sing themselves / by Nurse Lovechild ; to which is added, a letter from a lady on nursing. (Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : by Isaiah Thomas, sold at his bookstore, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]).--Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book. Voll. 2. (London] : Sold by M. Cooper, [approximately 1744]).--The pretty book : being a new and pleasant method to teach children. ([London] : Sold by Geo. Bickham in May's Buildings Covent Garden where is great variety, [approximately 1745]).
Source acquisition
Ex copy: Gift of the Costen Occasional Press.
Other title(s)
  • Nurse Lovechild's legacy
  • Pretty song-book
  • Tommy Thumb's song book
  • Pretty-book
  • Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Voll. II.
  • Pretty-book, being a new and pleasant method to teach children.
ISBN
  • 9780615678764
  • 0615678769
OCLC
842884884
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