Iona and Peter Opie’s great dictionary of more than five hundred nursery rhymes, each with its earliest known printing, its variants and its history. First published in 1951 and still the book everyone else quotes.
About Iona Opie and Peter Opie

Iona Opie, Peter Opie
Oxford University Press · 1997
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Iona and Peter Opie’s great dictionary of more than five hundred nursery rhymes, each with its earliest known printing, its variants and its history. First published in 1951 and still the book everyone else quotes.
About Iona Opie and Peter Opie
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