The Margaret Tarrant Nursery Rhyme Book. London: Collins, 1944. First Edition. Folio. Blue cloth boards lettered in white in pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Sixteen favourite nursery rhymes, beautifully illustrated with coloured plates by the Margaret Tarrant. 

Contents include well-loved rhymes such as ‘Little Bo-Peep’, ‘See-Saw Margery Daw’, ‘Jack and Jill’, and ‘There was an old woman who lived in a shoe’.

Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888-1959) was an English illustrator and children’s author, who wrote a range of books on fairy-tales and religion.