The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang. Beautifully illustrated by L.Leslie Brooke. A first edition , published by Fredrick Warne & Co in 1897. The cover has a green buckram spine with slightly faded gilt lettering and a green illustration. The boards have a colour, laid-down paper illustration. There is some slight bumping to the corners of the boards  and edges of the spine. The top of the text-block is gilt. The end-papers have absolutely delightful colour illustrations with a previous book-sellers label on the front paste-down. there is some very light foxing scattered through the book,  more apparent on the early pages. There are numerous black and white illustrations. a very good copy.