4to. 13 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts, numerous illustrations. (Slight offsetting and spotting.) Original white buckram gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (slight soiling); custom white morocco-tipped slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 984 of 1100 copies for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies of a total edition of 1130 copies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. "There are many more nursery rhymes than are included in this book... I have chosen those I knew and liked best in my own nursery days, and I have kept to the versions that I was familiar with" (Foreword, pp. v-vi). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 49-50; Riall pp. 115.

[Laid in:] A printed notice for "Arthur Rackham Exhibition" containing his original watercolor drawings for Mother Goose and other subjects held by Ernest Brown and Phillips at the Leicester Galleries in London from 11 October 1913 to 15 November 1913.