Oranges and Lemons.

New York, London, Paris; Raphael Tuck & Sons, Father Tuck's Holiday Series, #2499, Designed at the Studios in England (fpr US distribution); shiny chromolitho card cover shows older girls forming the arch for the game while four little girls march through; plain blue back, 7 chromolitho full page illustrations including one spread , half page coloured illustrations; oblong 13x9.75"; np. Toploader large softcover shabby.

Lovely chromolitho illustrations of Oranges and Lemons (cover) with lyrics, Ring a Ring o'Roses with lyrics, Battledore and Shuttlecock, Follow My Leader, Blindman's Bluff, Fox and Chickens, Hunt the Slipper, and Here We Come Gathering Nuts in May with lyrics. Colored illustrations and words to falling down Ring o Ring a Roses, Mulberry Bush, This is the Way We Wash Our Hands, and a few other rhymes. More a picture book than an instruction manual, but the children are bright and happy and the games easy to recognize from the illustrations. Brundage cover, other artist interior?

CONDITION: Good Minus, no names or other marks, card covers clean and flat, spine worn and split half way down, bottom corner of card cover chipped off for a half inch and all pages creased, upper corner has 2x1" chip in chromo paste-on exposing light blue card (not unattractive); pages are flat and very clean but becoming tan and brittle. Item #21856

Price: $35.00

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