Author(s): Iona Opie,Joan Hassall
No. of Pages: 240 pages
Date Published: 31 Dec 1964
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback | 240 pages
Dimensions: 160 x 236.2 x 25.4mm | 544.32g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
Edition:
Illustrations: woodcuts and engravings throughout

The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones. Special sections are devoted to lullabies and dandling rhymes, toe rhymes, catches, charms, traditional street cries, riddle verses, nursery maxims, and humorous ballads. The text is further enlivened by 600 illustrations, many of them eighteenth- and nineteenth-century woodcuts and engravings.