Nursery poems : from the ancient and modern poets (verso unfolded)

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Title

Nursery poems : from the ancient and modern poets (verso unfolded)

Subject

Nursery rhymes, English -- Juvenile literature
Chapbooks, English -- Specimens
Chapbooks -- Specimens

Description

Includes 18 uncolored woodcuts.
These unfolded pages contain excerpts of Nursery Rhymes. Due to its nature as an uncut chapbook, this page does not tell consecutive poems. This method is intended to be cut into its individual pages and placed together to form a compilation of nursery poems.
A compilation of nursery poems including "Sing a song of Sixpence", "Pussycat sits in the fire", "Cockadoodledoo", "Pretty Flowers", "This little Piggy", "Two Little Dogs", "Handy Spandy Jack a Dandy", "Billy Pringle's Pig", "Poor Puss", "The Little Rabbit", and more.
The folded pages contain the title page and pages 2, 15, 14, 3, 6, 11, 10, and 7.
16 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) , 10 x 7 cm

Creator

John Golby Rusher, 1784-1877

Source

University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections

Publisher

J. G. Rusher
England--Banbury

Date

1840

Contributor

Nicole Sonett

Rights

For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Reproduction & Use page: http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc-use.html

Format

Scanned from original book at 200-400 dpi in JPEG format using a Plustek OpticPro A320, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2017.

Language

English

Type

Relief prints--woodcuts,
Chapbook, text, image,
StillImage
Text

Identifier

Children’s Historical Literature Collection PR1175.3 .N87 1840

Files

Nursery Poems Verso Unfolded.jpg
Date Added
April 27, 2017
Collection
Nursery Poems: from the Ancient and Modern Poets
Item Type
Still Image
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Citation
John Golby Rusher, 1784-1877, “Nursery poems : from the ancient and modern poets (verso unfolded),” Children Will Listen, accessed May 4, 2024, https://viclit.omeka.net/items/show/1641.