ISBN10: 0198691114, ISBN13: 9780198691112, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
[Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1951]

ISBN10: 0198691114, ISBN13: 9780198691112, [publisher: Oxford. Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1977. Hard Cover. Originally published in 1951; this is a reprint with corrections. 467 pages with index. Attractive dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles and device embossed on the spine. Monochrome frontis is Walter Crane's Baby's own Alphabet. Minor bruising to head of spine otherwise book is fine. Pictorial dust wrapper which is unclipped and apart from minor creasing at the head of the spine otherwise fine. This Dictionary brings together more than 500 rhymes and songs traditionally handed on to young children, and studies their individual histories; their age, origins, first appearances in print or manuscripts, oral and written developments, literary associations, social uses, variations, and parallels in other languages. . the illustrations of which there are nearly a hundred, include reproductions of early appearances of the rhymes in ballad sheets and music books, and show the course of nursery rhyme illustration in children's literature through the past two centuries."
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