I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence

London : Marcus Ward & Co., [1890?]. Square octavo (175 x 140 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), [8] pp, each page with a superb chromolithograph illustration incorporating silver leaf; a couple of pages with light handling marks to the margins, else internally fine; a very good copy.

Delightfully illustrated and beautifully printed English nursery rhyme book.

Note: On the front cover, each word “sixpence” is represented by a picture of the coin. The coins bear the date 1890.

Rare. OCLC locates only the example in the University of Rochester Library.