The Big Book of Nursery Rimes. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: Blackie & Son, [1903]. First Edition. Pp 320. Publisher’s red cloth with elaborate gilt pictorial spine and upper board; all edges gilt; corners lightly rubbed and bumped.

Profusely illustrated by Charles Robinson with fifteen colour plates along with full page black and white drawings and hundreds of in-text illustrations & silhouettes. With decorative initials and borders.

A magnificent treasury of popular rhymes beautifully printed with ornaments embellish renderings of 300 traditional verses, including “Little Tom Tucker” ;”Baa, Baa Black Sheep” and “Old King Cole.”