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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Request in advance | Pforz BPSE (Opie, I. Nursery companion) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | JFG 82-102 | Offsite |
Details
- 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
- Children's literature, English > 19th century
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Opie, Peter. Compiler
- Research Call Number
- JFG 82-102Pforz BPSE (Opie, I. Nursery companion)
