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Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. n.d. [1890]. 12 pages, each with a coloured drawing, the number is shown in stylised boys for each of its letters and a rhyming couplet with its piano score, describing the demise of each boy from 9 down to 0. Colour pages and varnished pictorial card covers printed by J.M. Kronheim & Co., the back cover also includes an advertisement for other titles in the New Series. This book was part of a trend in 19th Century children's literature in their adopting minstrel show songs into counting out rhymes. The verses and the chorus for the full song are printed out on the front and back inside covers in b.w. The spine and internal hinges have been reinforced with glassene tape and there is a piece missing from the upper surface of the front cover, marginal chipping but no tears or internal losses or markings. Very scarce. Size: 9.5" x 11.5" , 4to.…