Denslow’s Mother Goose: Being the Old Familiar Rhymes and Jingles of Mother Goose Edited and Illustrated by W.W. Denslow
New York: McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers, 1901. Very Good. Item #11370
New York: McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers, 1901. First Edition, Second State with four pages of pictures before "Humpty Dumpty." Quarto. [96 pp.] Bright and highly amusing color illustrations by Denslow throughout, with verses hand-lettered by the esteemed type designer Frederic W. Goudy. Paper-covered boards with color illustration to front and back, stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket.
Boards edgeworn with exposure and some fraying at spine ends. Spine lettering and colophon notably sharp and binding is sound. Touch of off-setting to pages, but overall pages unmarked.
[Greene & Hearn 24].
Price: $650.00