THE TRAGI-COMIC HISTORY OF THE BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN
1821
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
Very good plus.
Price: $450.00
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
Very good plus.
Price: $450.00
Plates for this edition are based on an 1808 chapbook of the same title, printed by John Harris. The illustrations are attributed to Irish-born painter William Mulready, for which Princeton holds the original drawings.
Read more: A. S. W. Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, item 616; The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library, page 92.
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1821. Full title: THE TRAGI-COMIC HISTORY OF THE BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN; with the lamentation of Jenny Wren; the Sparrow's Apprehension; and the Cuckoo's Punishment. Being a sequel to the Courtship, Marriage and Pic-nic dinner of Robin Red-Breast and Jenny Wren. 5'' x 4''. Original pink paper over boards made of printed waste. Full-page black-and-white frontispiece with seven full-page black-and-white plates. [5], 16, [1] pages, first and last pasted to boards as usual. Mild soiling and edgewear to boards. Pages uniformly toned, as usual; pages cracking to hinge. Sound.
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