| Summary: | "Father Tuck's play & pleasure series Title, imprint and series from front cover; series precedes imprint on cover. Text in prose; based on the nursery rhyme. The firm was first called Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. in 1895; cf. Blair and Margaret Whitton, Collector's guide to Raphael Tuck & Sons (1991), p. 6. Text signed on p. [11], "George C. Floyd." Text is identical to that attributed to Raphael Tuck & Sons staff writer Grace C. Floyd in an edition issued in Father Tuck's little darling series. First and last page blank; pasted to cover. "Designed at the studios in England."--foot of front cover. Cover and some illustrations chromolithographed. Illustrations attributed to Frances Brundage or Louis Wain in the database eph.tuckdb.org. Has trademark of Raphael Tuck & Sons on back cover consisting of an easel bearing the initials "RTS," and a palette below it with the sign, "artistic series," and the inventory number 2450."
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