The Tragi Comic History Of The Burial Of Cock Robin

$450 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1821. Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice. Very good plus. Item #6314 Plates for this edition are based on an 1808 chapbook of the same title, printed by John Harris. The illustrations are attributed to Irish-born painter William Mulready, for which Princeton holds the original drawings.

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