Ride a Cock-Horse And Other Nursery Rhymes
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.
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.
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