Title: Reasons for a new edition of the nursery rhymes of England, containing Notices of the Defects of Former Impressions. Written at the suggestion of a twelfth-night party, by a F.S.A., F.Z.S., Hon. Member H.M.S., M.L.M.L., Director N.P.B.A. [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 8. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">Presentation inscription to William Chappell; bound with his copy of Nursery Rhymes of England by J.O. Halliwell </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">(London, Percy Society, 1842)</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A facetious critique of James Orchard Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes of England, with title recalling John Payne Collier’s Reasons for a New Edition of Shakespeare. Cooper’s authorship is confirmed by an inscribed copy in the Folger Library. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1462158" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a><br /></p>