Item #114168 ABC Nursery Rhymes. William McCONNELL.
ABC Nursery Rhymes
ABC Nursery Rhymes

ABC Nursery Rhymes

Adelaide, W.F. McConnell Co-operative Publicity, [late 1920s].

Quarto, [32] pages of colour illustrations by John Charles Goodchild (beneath the illustration on almost every page is a period advertisement).

Overlapping colour pictorial card covers (with colour pictorial advertisements on the other three surfaces) a little creased and marked, with some edge tears expertly sealed; light bottom corner crease throughout, with trifling signs of use and age; overall an excellent copy.

London-born John Charles Goodchild (1898-1980) emigrated with his family to South Australia in 1913; he served on the Western Front with the 9th Field Ambulance, AIF. He established himself as an artist, educator and arts administrator in Adelaide after the war. He studied in London in both the early and late 1920s; this booklet would seem to have benefitted from his second visit, where he studied engraving and lithography. 'Advertisements for various household products manufactured by South Australian businesses, presented in nursery rhyme form with colourful illustrations' (Trove, supplying the author's name as well). One example will suffice: 'H for Humpty Dumpty, He came an awful fall, Applied Solyptol Ointment and felt no pain at all'. 'With Compliments from C.S. Baron, Draper, Grocer and Hardware Merchant, Murray Bridge' is printed at the foot of the front cover of this copy. Trove records three copies, each featuring a different business house as the source of the item. Not in Muir, but (again according to Trove), there is now a copy in the Marcie Muir Collection of Australian Children's Books housed in the National Library of Australia.

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