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[Nursery Rhymes] - Reference A GOOD GROUP OF 7 ESSENTIAL REFERENCE WORKS BY CHAMBERS, HALLIWELL, KER AND NORTHALL, 1826 - 1892, MOST FROM THE OPIE COLLECTION, AS LISTED BELOW Chambers, Robert. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland, with Illustrations, Chiefly collected from oral sources. Edinburgh: William Hunter, Charles Smith James Duncan in London, 1826. 12mo (6 ¼ x 3 ¾ in.; 158 x 95 mm). Half title. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards; extremities worn. Signature of “Ja[me]s Glay 21 Feb 1826” on title. Opie, Three Centuries 37. With: Idem. New [4th] Edition. Edinburgh & London: W. & R. Chambers, [1870]. 8vo (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 186 x 130 mm). Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped title on upper cover and spine. Opie 39 — Halliwell [-Phillipps], James Orchard. The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected principally from Oral Tradition. London: T. Richard for the Percy Society, 1842. 8vo (7 3/8 x 4 ½ in.; 187 x 115 mm); some soiling and staining. Later dark-blue half-cloth; some stains and soiling. Opie Collection with their stamp on front pastedown. Opie, Three Centuries 41. With: Idem. Second Edition. London: John Russell Smith, 1843. Half title; a few light spots. Publisher’s tan patterned cloth, blindstamped covers, gilt-stamped spine; upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed. Opie 42. — Halliwell [-Phillipps], James Orchard. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. London: John Russell Smith, 1849. 12mo (6 ¾ x 4 1/8 in.; 172 x 105 mm). Half title, 16-page publisher’s advertisement at end. Original salmon pebbled cloth, blindstamped, gilt-stamped title on spine; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners torn, a few stains on upper cover and spine. Iona & Peter Opie annotated copy, with their stamp on front pastedown. Opie 625 — Ker, John Bellenden. An Essay on the Archaiology of Popular English Phrases and Nursery Rhymes. Southampton: Fletcher & Son, London: Black, Young & Young, 1834. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 ½ in.; 225 x 140 mm). Half title; some spotting on preliminaries and lighter in final pages. Contemporary drab boards; rebacked with brown cloth; soiled. Opie 623. — Northall, G. F. English Folk-Rhymes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., 1892. 8vo (7 ½ x 5 in.; 190 x 127 mm). Half title; fore-edge spotting. Publisher’s red cloth, gilt-stamped title on upper cover and spine; spine sunned. Stamped signature of John Watson Taylor. From the Opie Collection with 2-pp. manuscript notes laid in.