Folkard, Charles

a) complete set of 12 ink and watercolour illustrations, average 235 by 180mm., one unsigned and one signed with initials, otherwise all signed, some laid-down to card; b) additional ink and watercolour illustration (reproduced in the book, but not listed as a colour plate), 244 by 225mm., signed; c) ink and watercolour design for dust-jacket, 240 by 180mm., signed; d) ink design for spine, 187 by 48mm., unsigned; e) ink lettering proposed for spine, 40 by 40mm. and 32 by 41mm., unsigned; f) coloured ink drawing for title-page, 282 by 214mm., unsigned, lettering corrections laid down; g) collection of 245 ink drawings and 4 illustrated borders on 170 sheets, mostly signed or initialled; h) 26 decorated initials on 2 sheets, letter H lacking illustration and letter Q covered; i) envelope containing extensive collection of proof printings; occasional soiling

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A FINE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR ONE OF FOLKARD’S MAJOR WORKS.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes edited by L. Edna Walter with illustrations by Charles Folkard was first published by A. and C. Black in 1919. New editions, frequently with a reduced number of colour plates, were published for the next three decades. Many of Folkard’s illustrations were reused for Averill Newell’s The Enchanted Way (A. and C. Black, 1937). Such was the appeal of Folkard’s illustrations that, as late as the 1970s, they were used an EMI LP issue of Uncle Mac’s Nursery Rhymes.