A Book of Nursery Rhymes.

(Incline Press.) MARX (Enid, Illustrator)

A Book of Nursery Rhymes.

Illustrated with Wood Engravings.

Description: XXXV/50 COPIES signed by the artist (from an edition of 310 copies), 30 wood engravings and 3 line drawings, some printed in purple, orange, blue or red, many hand-coloured, these special copies with separate prints of 3 wood engravings in tipped-in wallet to rear pastedown, pp. vii, 33, small 4to, original quarter red cloth, the boards with a patterned Marx design, printed label to upper board and backstrip, edges untrimmed, prospectus laid in at rear, fine

Publication Details: Oldham: The Incline Press, 1993

Notes: The Press's first book, hand-coloured. The majority of the illustrations were originally made for Chatto & Windus's 'Zodiac Book of Nursery Rhymes' in 1938.

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