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Ride a Cock-Horse And Other Nursery Rhymes

Name: Ride a Cock-Horse And Other Nursery Rhymes
Author: Anon [Mervyn Peake]

Book Description

First edition, without dedication. Covers lightly age-toned, corners bumped and bruised; backstrip browned and cracked at rear joint, neat 2½ cm. repair at head of spine. Unrepaired closed tears at p.17 (8 cm. just touching image); p. 27 (8 cm. at gutter, not affecting image); and p. 29 (4 cm. near gutter, not affecting image). These faults notwithstanding, contents clean and tight; hinges perfect.

Dealer Notes

Peake's second illustrated book. Some of the illustrations were hand coloured using stencils, "the result was assuredly Mervyn's most charming book" (cf. 'Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake' by G. Peter Winnington).

Reportedly some of the illustrations were hand coloured using stencils, but we are not able to confirm this.

Author Anon [Mervyn Peake]

Date 1940

Binding Publisher's original colour pictorial boards

Publisher London: Chatto and Windus

Illustrator Mervyn Peake

Condition Very good

Pages 29 p.

Price: £185.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

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