SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita (1892-1962). Nursery Rhymes, London, The Dropmore Press, 1947, 4to, original buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 89 OF 550 COPIES.

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita (1892-1962).  Nursery Rhymes. London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. 4to (260 x 190mm). Half title, title printed in pink and black, large pink initial and pink printer's device on colophon leaf. Original dark blue buckram with printer's device stamped in gilt on the upper cover, the spine lettered in gilt, uncut, dust-jacket (some minor scratching to the upper cover, some light staining to the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 89 OF 550 COPIES. The colophon states: "This book, 'Nursery Rhymes', by V. Sackville-West, is the fourth in a series called the 'Dropmore Essays'. It has been set in 16 point Monotype Bembo, and paged and adjusted at the Dropmore Press. It has been printed on a hand press on paper hand made by Portals of Whitchurch. The bindings are by Evans of Croydon." Although Wikipedia lists Nursery Rhymes among the author's 'short stories', it is a book not of nursery rhymes but about nursery rhymes and their hidden meanings, both historical and psychological. Please note that the title page and limitation leaf are contiguous and, in the present copy, unopened at their shared upper edge, hence the awkward illustration of them both in this catalogue. Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme Vita Sackville-West. A Bibliography A45.