Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs, and Toby Tickle's Collection of Riddles. (From Lumsden & Son's Juvenile Library)
(Early English) GAMMER GURTON'S GARLAND OF NURSERY SONGS, AND TOBY TICKLE'S COLLECTION OF RIDDLES. (FROM LUMSDEN & SON'S JUVENILE LIBRARY); compiled by Peter Puzzlecap, Esq. Glasgow: Lumsden and Son, circa 1815-1820. 48mo - 3-7/8" x 2-9/16". Buff colored pictorial stiff paper wrappers with titles and a woodcut within a decorative border, all printed in black, to both front and back wrappers, with the slightest hint of rubbing to spine, light overall dusting and title of book neatly written in ink on upper margin of front wrapper for what is a beautiful copy of the book. 32 pp. A title in Lumsden & Son's Juvenile Library with the printed price of "two pence" on front wrapper, the book contains "advice to all good children" which includes eleven different nursery rhymes in the section titled "Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs," each illustrated with a lovely woodcut, followed by a full page woodcut of Peter Puzzlecap, Esq., and eleven riddles, ten of which are illustrated