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FOREMAN**, MICHAEL: : MICHAEL FOREMAN'S MOTHER GOOSE

LONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD.,1991.

ISBN 0744507758.

UK,landscape,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman,illustrated dw/dj,with yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate mottled dark grey endpapers.UK,slim landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-152pp [paginated] includes over 200 lullabies,action rhymes,nonsense verse,riddles and tongue-twisters,profuse colour illustrations throughout by Michael Foreman; plus [unpaginated] blank,colour vignetted half-title page,with colour vignette to verso,colour vignetted title page,a dedication also with a colour vignette,a foreword by Iona Opie,an index with a select bibliography to verso of last page of same. As Iona Opie remarks in her Foreword, Mother Goose rhymes are the first furnishings of the mind . . . they are full of poetically and effortless absurdity.In this volume there are over two hundred of the best-known and loved - as well as every favourite nursery character, from Jack Sprat to Little Jack Horner.Each lavish double-page has its own setting against which individual,thematically linked rhymes are illustrated.There are also intriguing visual links from one scene to the next: while Mary, Mary and the pretty maid work in the garden,for instance,two legs waggle in the air on the wall above them - when the page is turned,the legs are seen to belong to a now-broken Humpty Dumpty.There are pages of lullabies,action rhymes,nonsense verse,riddles and tongue-twisters.It's a classic Mother Goose and the crowning jewel in the career of one of the world's greatest illustrators. Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk,1938. Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art(1963-65),the London College of Printing (1967-8),the Royal College of Art (1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1972).Director of Playboy magazine, Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966). Painter,etcher,illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive: he often works in colour or halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery,ostensibly decorative, humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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