Author: Rogers, J.E. (depicted by)
Title: Mores Ridiculi
Description: MacMillan & Co, 1871. Hardcover. 12 attarctive coloured plates each constructed around a nursery rhyme. Original 1871 edition. From a contempory review: Mr. Rogers' Ridicula Rediviva will be glad to see a continuation of the series. The twelve pictures of the volume before us are on a smaller scale than are those in the Ridicula, but are not, we think, the worse for that. They are distinguished by the same brilliant and harmonious colouring, the same careful drawing, and the same propriety and finish of detail. The humour of illustrating nonsensical rhymes with the grave artistic accuracy which gives most conscientiously all the minutiva of architecture is indeed humour of a quidt sort, but in really good drawings, such as will bear examination, it retains a certain freshness, and amuses as much the twentieth time as it does the first. Of the twelve pictures we prefer the first, though it is somewhat crowded ; how could it be otherwise, when the artist seeks to put into one cartoon all the incidents of the great drama of Sing a song of sixpence? But the faces have more expression in them than usual, while the countenances which Mr. Rogers gives to his quaint figures are commonly a little flat. Binding appears sound (though may have been glued). Brown boards well rubbed and corners worn. Plates bright and unfaded but marginal fingermarks and grubbiness with a few short edge tears on one or two plates. Remains a very attractive and rare original childrens book. Gift inscription above title page dated 1871.See scans - please email for a comprehensive selection. . Fair

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