- The Musical-Box Annual: Tune and Rhyme for Nursery Time

London, Fleetway House, 1935 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this charming collection of musical pieces for children, illustrated throughout and in the scarce original dust wrapper. Illustrated with a vibrant full colour frontispiece, and with further vignette illustrations throughout - many in two colours - this work contains a delightful collection of piano pieces, verses and songs, interspersed with short biographical accounts of the lives of famous composers, including Bach, Handel and Mozart.In the publisher's original illustrated price unclipped dust wrapper.Rhymes and songs featured include 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'The Maypole Song', and 'Sir Roger de Coverley&apos. In the original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, with unclipped illustrated dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head and tail, otherwise externally exceptionally bright. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with a small loss and a further closed tear to the back strip tail, and a further small loss to the back strip head. Minor chipping and edgewear to back strip head, with a small loss to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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