Pitter Patter

  • Boards
  • London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1891
By BINGHAM, Clifton
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1891. Boards. Very good. Lizzie LAWSON. London: Ernest Nister, 24 St. Bride St., E.C. and New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., 31 West Twenty Third Street, No date [c. 1891]. Lizzie LAWSON, illustrator. Lithographed and printed by E. Nister at Nuremberg.

16mo (6 ¼" x 4 7/8"); [12]pp; glazed chromolithographed boards featuring two children sitting under an umbrella in the rain, green cloth shelf-back; 4 full page chromolithographed illustrations, small b&w line drawings in text; light scuffing of boards, age-toned paper; very good. Hunt 208. OCLC locates 5 copies, 4 in the U.S. and one in the U.K. The story of Annie and Rosie, two young girls, and their conversations with raindrops in a shower. "Every little raindrop / Makes a flower grow; / Every flower growing, / Makes the garden glow. / Every garden flower / Makes the world more fair, / Both for the raindrops / And the folks living there.".

Details

Title

Pitter Patter

Author

BINGHAM, Clifton

Binding

Boards

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co: London and New York

Date

1891


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