Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Music
New York: McLoughlin Bros. No date [c. 1910]. Boards. [JUVENILE]. Cover title: Mother Goose’s Melodies Set to Music
8vo; [iii],111pp; color pictorial boards, red cloth shelf-back; embossed title on spine; b&w vignette of an owl on title page; b&w lithograph illustration as head-piece to each song; gift inscription dated 1922 on ffep; bumping to cover corners with loss, light soiling to cover, child’s writing on rear board, rubbing to spine, deterioration of the stapled binding with some gatherings starting to loosen, glue burn to endpapers, lightly shaken; good. Good. Item #1839
The cover illustration showing Mother Goose in a lace cap and shawl, wearing spectacles, and playing the piano remains bright despite the wear to the boards. The illustrations are clever and the pages remain bright.
Price: $45.00