Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes

London : Chatto and Windus , 1940 . First Edition . Good . 4TO . First Edition, Second Impression with "For Sebastian" dedication page. The first book that Peake was commissioned to illustrate. Frontis and 14 other full-page illustrations by Peake, 10 of which are hand-coloured. Extraordinary pictures, showing full promise of the career to come. … Ler mais sobre este item

London: Chatto and Windus,, 1940. First edition, first impression, first issue (without the dedication page). This is Mervyn Peake's first commission as illustrator and his second illustrated book, following Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939); its success led to Chatto & Windus commissioning Peake to illustrate their edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1941). His illustrations for… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Chatto & Windus Ltd., 1972. Hardcover - 1st reissued 1972 edition. Light tanning and shelfwear to the jacket (unclipped) and hardcover. The spine is a little bumped and cocked. The binding is sound; all text and illustrations are clear. CM. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Peake, Mervyn. Used.

Chatto and Windus, London., 1940. First edition. First issue, without the dedication page. Quarto. 29 pages. Pictorial hand-coloured paper boards. Fourteen nursery rhymes, each accompanied by a full-page illustration by Mervyn Peake, ten of which are hand-coloured; black and white frontispiece.Signed and dated 1941 by the artist on the front free endpaper.Paper boards a little bruised at extremities with… Ler mais sobre este item

Paperback. Very Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.