THE FABER BOOK OF CHILDREN’S SONGS Selected and Arranged by Donald Mitchell and Roderick Biss
First edition. 4to. Pictorial cloth boards with matching pictorial dustwrapper. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, some creasing to top edges. Eight full page colour plates and numerous black and white drawings throughout. Sixty six songs gathered from various sources, with piano score accompaniments and a range of other suggestions for accompaniments. An early example of Errol Le Cain's illustration accompanying nursery rhymes and children's verse.
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