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COCK ROBIN - The Happy Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Pic Nic Dinner, of Cock Robin, and Jenny Wren. To which is added, alas! the doleful death of the bridegroom. London: H. Bryer for J. Harris, 1806.
16° (125 x 103 and 127 x 102mm), 2 parts. Collation: pt.I A8 and 14 engraved plates including frontispiece; pt.II B8 and 12 engraved plates inlcuding frontispiece. Letterpress paper watermarked 1805, plate paper 1806. The illustrations plain (slight offsetting). Original printed buff wrappers, one frontcover inscribed "Pt 2" at the publisher's (binding slightly torn and stained).
This popular traditional rhyme originally appeared in children's penny-book editions of the 18th century. A number of single-volume copies of the first edition of Harris's picture book version are known, but the Moon copy is UNIQUE for being in two parts as issued in their original stiff-paper wrappers. Moon H-144(2A-B); A & M 49-50.
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16° (125 x 103 and 127 x 102mm), 2 parts. Collation: pt.I A8 and 14 engraved plates including frontispiece; pt.II B8 and 12 engraved plates inlcuding frontispiece. Letterpress paper watermarked 1805, plate paper 1806. The illustrations plain (slight offsetting). Original printed buff wrappers, one frontcover inscribed "Pt 2" at the publisher's (binding slightly torn and stained).
This popular traditional rhyme originally appeared in children's penny-book editions of the 18th century. A number of single-volume copies of the first edition of Harris's picture book version are known, but the Moon copy is UNIQUE for being in two parts as issued in their original stiff-paper wrappers. Moon H-144(2A-B); A & M 49-50.
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