(New York: The Stonehill Publishing Co, 1983).

FIRST EDITION, PROFUSELY DECORATED WITH SOME OF THE FINEST WORK OF MASTER ILLUSTRATORS AND PRINTERS OF THE LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY IN ENGLAND. "This book presents a representative selection of the best work produced for children during the great flowering of the illustrator's art that began in England in the 1860's. The beautifully crafted drawings of such illustrators as Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Richard Doyle has been reproduced with painstaking fidelity to the originals. Includes the complete texts of Caldecott's whimsical Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting, selections from Greenaway's beloved Mother Goose, Doyle's exquisitely rendered drawings of fairies and elves, the lavish work of anonymous illustrators for such classics as Puss-in-Boots and Tom Thumb, and much more. Item #32501

First American Edition. With 127 full colour plates and 46 black and white drawings. 8vo, publisher's original navy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine panel, and with the colour pictorial dustjacket. xxi, 184 pp. An extremely fresh and well preserved copy of this enticing book, as pristine.