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Title
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Nursery Rhymes & Fables
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Collected & Illustrated by W.J. Morgan
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Creator
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Morgan, Walter Jenks
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Contributor
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Morgan, W.J.
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:49:55Z
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2005-09
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1896?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:49:55Z
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Date Issued
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1896
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Abstract
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This 64-page book is in fragile condition, but it has beautiful chromolithograph (?) illustrations! As the beginning T of C shows, there are some twenty-one nursery rhymes and eleven fables. Many pages are loose, but they all seem to be present. Colored illustrations and black-and-white alternate on pairs of pages, so that we are always looking at two pages that are colored or two that are illustrated in black-and-white. The fables start on 47-48 with FS. For these early fables, there is one picture before or after the fable's text. Thus on 50 there is a dramatic picture of the kite grasping both frog and mouse aloft--the text of that fable has just finished before we turned the page--and on 51 there is a picture of a dog crying on a bridge over a stream. Turning the page shows us why when Morgan illustrates DS and gives us a text for the fable. These are classic colored illustrations! Two of the best are FG and DM on 62 and 63, respectively. I do not know where the eBay seller got the date of 1896, although it seems likely enough. I have now a better second copy and will keep both in the collection; both are fragile.
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Identifier
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5962 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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E. & J.B. Young & Co.
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New York
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Subject
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PZ8.3 .N877 1896
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Collection
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Type
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Book, Whole