MOTHER GOOSE'S NURSERY RHYMES. With Illustrations By Charles Robinson.

Jerrold, Walter

ISBN 10: 0679428151 / ISBN 13: 9780679428152

Editore: NY & Toronto. 1993. A.A. Knopf / Borzoi Book / Everyman's Library Childrens Classics., 1993

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green, black & gilt decorative full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with full color onlay illustration and green silk marker ribbbon. no dustwrapper (as issued). fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. minor rubbing to the spine ink. corner of onlay has a scratch. marker ribbon frayed at the end. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (nap) of this reprint edition (first published in 1903 as "The Big Book Of Nursery Rhymes"). illustrated endpapers. illustrated 1/2 title, frontis. & title pg. 320p.+ about the author & illustator & list of other series titles. poetry. fairy tales. mythology. folklore. english literature. ~ French writer Charles Perrault first popularized the name in 1697 with his fairy tale collection, Histoires ou contes du temps passé, subtitled Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye ("Tales of Mother Goose"). The name was officially tied to traditional English nursery rhymes in the mid~1700s. While printed in the 1700s, many rhymes date back to the 16th and 17th centuries as traditional folk songs and spoken riddles.

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• Titolo: MOTHER GOOSE'S NURSERY RHYMES. With Illustrations By Charles Robinson.
• Editore: NY & Toronto. 1993. A.A. Knopf / Borzoi Book / Everyman's Library Childrens Classics.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679428151
• ISBN 13: 9780679428152
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Disegnatore: Charles Robinson
• Edizione: edizione illustrata
• Condizione: ottimo
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • myhology
  • fairy tales
  • medieval literature

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Riassunto

“Doctor Foster went to Glo’ster, In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle, And never went there again.” A bumper crop of nursery rhymes for the delight of the very young. In his Introduction, Jerrold explains how his selection was based on earlier collections made by John Newbery, Joseph Ritson and James Orchard Halliwell. He goes on to add, “ Students divide our rhymes into narrative pieces, historical folk-lore, game rhymes, counting-out rhymes, jingles, fragments, etcetera, but for the children for whom and by whom they are remembered, and for whom they are here collected and pictured anew, they are just — Nursery Rhymes.”

Informazioni sull'autore

Walter Jerrold (1865-1929) was born in Liverpool but spent most of his life in London, where he followed a literary career. Starting work as a clerk in a newspaper counting-house, he went on to become deputy editor of The Observer. He edited many classic texts for the newly founded Everyman's Library, he wrote biographies, he produced stories for children under the name of Walter Copeland. In 1895 he married Clara Armstrong and his five daughters were obviously a ready audience and true inspiration for his bumper collection of nursery rhymes. While explaining that this was based on earlier collections made by John Newbery, Joseph Ritson, and James Orchard Halliwell, he admitted that 'Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor . . .'

Charles Robinson (1870-1937) was apprenticed to a lithographer in London while also attending art school. In 1892 he was commissioned to illustrate R. L. Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses for The Bodley Head. The book’s success established him as a successful artist and he went on to illustrate more than a hundred books.