My elusive Cockney family
By: Angela Lorenz
Contributors: Lorenz, Angela; Stamperia Valdonega; Novelties of Purpose (Firm)
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9788890577635
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Dialects; Rhyming slang; Couplets; English language; Languages; Texts; Artists' books; Specimens
Notes: Text is an accordion-folded structure forming 16 pages, 6 of them blank.

"The two volumes in this series each introduce six words in cockney rhyming slang, defined within a rhyming couplet, and illustrated in watercolor. Every image is a composite of Victorian ephemera: card games, cut-outs, fashion plates, tourist items and early children's books printed in the mid-19th century. The original sources, all in the author's collection, show the startling range in quality of early color illustrations, from crude hand-coloring with stencils to exquisitely printed chromolithography."-- Colophon

The other volume in this series is: "More Dicky Birds or Cockney Rhyming Words"