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A nursery companion

Title
A nursery companion / provided by Iona and Peter Opie.
Author
Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1980.

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Additional Authors
Opie, Peter.
Description
128 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Summary
Presents reproductions of a variety of early 19th-century children's books including rhymed alphabets, nursery rhymes, a pictorial grammar, limericks, and nonsense rhymes.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Contents
A was an archer. -- Nursery novelties. -- The history of an apple pie written by Z. -- The history of the house that Jack built. -- The comic adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog. -- Who killed Cock Robin? -- The juvenile numerator. -- The adventures of Jack and Jill and Old Dame Gill. -- The comic adventures of Old Dame Trot and her cat. -- Little rhymes of little folks; or, Poetry for Fanny's library. -- The paths of learning strewed with flowers; or, English grammar illustrated. -- The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog. -- Punctuation personified. -- Dame Wiggins of Lee and her seven wonderful cats. -- Dame Dearlove's ditties for the nursery. -- The history of sixteen wonderful old women. -- Anecdotes and adventures of fifteen gentlemen. -- Peter Piper's practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation. -- The chapter of Kings. -- The gamut and time-table in verse. -- Peter Prim's pride, or Proverbs that will suit the young or the old. -- The remarkable adventures of an old woman and her pig. -- The little man and the little maid. -- Sam Syntax's cries of London. -- Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos. -- The dandies' rout. -- Mounseer Nongtongpaw; or the discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris.
Call Number
JFG 82-102
ISBN
0192122134
LCCN
82460507 /AC
OCLC
  • 6845573
  • NYPG83-B16310
Author
Opie, Iona, 1923-2017. Compiler
Title
A nursery companion / provided by Iona and Peter Opie.
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1980.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
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Opie, Peter. Compiler
Research Call Number
JFG 82-102
Pforz BPSE (Opie, I. Nursery companion)
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