Description
Shipton, Margaret. Twenty-One Nursery Rhymes ; Transcribed and Decorated by Margaret Shipton. London: Alfred A. Knopf Ltd. [Borzoi Books] | Printed by Henderson & Spalding Ltd. at the Sylvan Press (Camberwell, London), 1928. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 24. Slim 4to., measuring 7.5″ x 10″. Publisher’s quarter navy-blue cloth over illustrated boards. Charming, vibrant, illustrations printed on heavy card-stock paper. Light rubbing to the boards, some discoloration of the cloth spine, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves with firm, sound binding; very good+ and accompanied with its scarce original, unclipped, bright-yellow illustrated dustjacket bearing the original price of 6s to the inner front panel showing some light rubbing (now housed in protective mylar cover). An uncommonly charming children’s title. See OCLC #18957105. Hardcover. (#5800) $125.00
