Buy this book on-line OPIE**, IONA and PETER - Edited by: : THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF Nursery RhymesLONDON.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,1973,(with corrections). ISBN 0198691114.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,7th reprint.[Originally and first published 1951,reprinted 1952,1955, 1958,1962,1966,and 1969.This 1973 edn,the first with corrections.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy,white background with orange+black illustrated panel to front with black lettering,white spine/backstrip with black letters,rear panel with without illustration and just an ISBN; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with sporadic dust-soiling flecks,fore-edges bright and clean with just three flecks; contents bright,tight and clean with no foxing to text body - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - could appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,7th reprint,v-xxviipp+1-467pp [paginated] includes authors' preface,acknowledgements,contents list/table,separate illustrations+abbreviations lists/tables,a 45pp introduction.b/w contemporay illustrations interspersed throughout the text and the book,550 nursery rhymes,an index of Notable Figures and an index of first lines.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w illustrated frntis (taken from Walter Crane's 'Baby's Own Alphabet',1874),title page and to the rear,blank reverse of last page of index and 4pp blanks following.
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.
A general introduction describes the different types of nursery rhymes,the earliest collections made of them,and the theories which have been advanced about their origin; and discusses such particular questions as the possibility that they originally portrayed real people,how they achieved their present-day popularity,and who was 'Mother Goose'. Assembled within this volume is almost everything that is known about the subject,together with the results of original research especially undertaken for the work.
The illustrations of which there are nearly a hundred, include reproducions 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.
A classic on the subject.
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