The nursery rhymes of England
The Nursery Rhymes of England, compiled by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published in London and New York by F. Warne and Co. in 1886, is a collection of traditional English nursery verse aimed at children. Its small wood-engraved pictures are plain, quiet line drawings of rural scenes, costumed figures and children, and a designer might take from them a simple, cheerful storybook vocabulary of pastoral figures and folk characters.
