Oxford: University Press, (1945). First edition. An illustrated alphabet and nursery rhymes from the exuberant illustrator Winifred Marks. Marks’ illustrations leap out of the page in both vibrant colour and in black and white. Her work is in the avant-garde and she was admired by Herbert Read. Her brilliant series for children, LIVELY DRAWING, encourages the approach to art and drawing exemplified here. For her text of traditional nursery rhymes, Marks has chosen wording mostly from Halliwell-Phillipps’ 1853 BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES. “ Only where custom has already altered the original wording, so that the latter would be unfamiliar to the modern child, have alterations been made.” This first edition is quite scarce; so far we have located only four copies in OCLC. This title listed in Cotsen in the 1846 printing only. WITH AN ILLUSTRATED ALPHABET 4to (24.5 X 18.5) 64 pp. profusely illustrated in both colour and in black and white.