Modern Literature
Nursery Rhymes and Carols Restored to Their Original Meanings, illustrations from line-drawings, bibliography & index of first lines, 256 pp, red boards in d/w, slight fading to top edge of d/w, otherwise in very good condition, Robert Hale 1986
21.4 x 13 cm, 510g, ISBN 0 70902 630 7
See below the description from the dustwrapper flap and extracts from reviews from the rear of the dustwrapper of the author’s later book ‘The Restoration of Cock Robin’ – see http://www.monkshillbooks.co.uk/the-restoration-of-cock-robin.htm
There is, as you can imagine, a certain degree of conjecture involved . . . . Not a book for the prudish!
Out of print.