Reasons for a new edition of the nursery rhymes of England, containing Notices of the Defects of Former Impressions. Written at the suggestion of a twelfth-night party, by a F.S.A., F.Z.S., Hon. Member H.M.S., M.L.M.L., Director N.P.B.A. [...]

Reasons for a new edition of the nursery rhymes of England, containing Notices of the Defects of Former Impressions. Written at the suggestion of a twelfth-night party, by a F.S.A., F.Z.S., Hon. Member H.M.S., M.L.M.L., Director N.P.B.A. [...]

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8vo. pp. 8. Presentation inscription to William Chappell; bound with his copy of Nursery Rhymes of England by J.O. Halliwell (London, Percy Society, 1842).


A facetious critique of James Orchard Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes of England, with title recalling John Payne Collier’s Reasons for a New Edition of Shakespeare. Cooper’s authorship is confirmed by an inscribed copy in the Folger Library. 


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