NURSERY RHYME

Los 165
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 2 016
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Los 165 | NURSERY RHYME
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NURSERY RHYME
Memoirs of Little Jack Horner a renowned character. London: W. and T. Darton, 1806.
An extremely rare survival, complete in its original stitched wrappers, of this classic nursery rhyme in one of its earliest editions. Jackey or Jack Horner seems to have originated in the 18th century as a satire on political opportunism. With this connotation of a lack of integrity or consistency, Jack Horner became a target for moralists, who re-wrote the work for children. The present work contains 16 illustrations, each captioned with a moral verse. This lot is the second of two variants printed by Darton in 1806, the first year of their publication, with wording on the first illustration changed and corrections made to text on leaves 4 and 14. Only two other copies of this 1806 Darton edition can be traced at auction in the past 50 years, both hand-coloured: Sotheby’s 7 June 1991, lot 305; and the Marjorie Moon copy, Christie’s 28 June 1995 lot 146 (this latter lacking the wrappers). Brian Alderson and Marjorie Moon, Childhood Re-Collected no.38 and Appendix I, noting Mrs. Moon's observation ‘one of the prettiest nursery-rhyme books of its period that I have seen’; Darton H790(2).

16mo (127 x 106mm). 16 leaves, printed on one side only, each with a picture above verse stanzas, engraved and etched throughout, leaves 7, 10 and 16 with the imprint under the illustrations ‘Published June 19 1806 by W. and T. Darton London’ (final leaf pasted onto rear wrapper as issued torn through first and second lines of text with very minor loss to a couple of letters and some small marginal loss, occasional light soiling). Original printed wrappers, with title on upper cover and ads on lower cover within simple wavy line border (light soiling and spotting, small patch of abrasion on lower cover with loss of a couple of words and short stretch of border). Provenance: Bertha Ransome (born 11 June 1870 into a Quaker family in Wandsworth; late 19th-century ink ownership inscription with ink stamp of ‘Rushmere Cottage, North Side, Wandsworth Common’ on blank recto of first leaf).
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