The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe, Father Tuck's "Dolly Dear" Series, Untearable Linen, No. 2309

London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., Art Publishers to Their Majesties The King & Queen, 1910. [JUVENILE] [RHYMING VERSE] [ILLUSTRATED]. 32mo (4 ½” x 6 7/8”); [8]pp; glazed linen wrapper, color pictorial front with title; 2 staple binding; verse and line drawings printed in sepia, 2 bright chromolithographed pictorials at the center fold; light hand wear; near fine. OCLC locates 5 copies, including AAS. The front wrapper features a lively pictorial of a mother holding a large switch aloft and trying to gather 10 children into a large shoe. Seven short rhymes are included, only five are titled: “There was an Old Woman,” “I had a Little Hen,” “See, saw, Margery Daw,” “Tom Thumb,” “The Baby Bear.” And, two without titles, “Bye, baby bunting,” and "Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders.”

Dating the publication is based on the opening of Tuck’s Berlin office in 1907 and the designation of “Publisher’s to Their Majesties, The King & Queen, & T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales” 1901-1910. (Inventory #: 2169)