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Text is an accordion-folded structure forming 16 pages, 6 of them blank.

"The two volumes in this series each introduce six words in cockney rhyming slang, defined within a rhyming couplet, and illustrated in watercolor. Every image is a composite of Victorian ephemera: card games, cut-outs, fashion plates, tourist items and early children's books printed in the mid-19th century. The original sources, all in the author's collection, show the startling range in quality of early color illustrations, from crude hand-coloring with stencils to exquisitely printed chromolithography."--Colophon.

The other volume in this series is: "More Dicky Birds or Cockney Rhyming Words."

Artists' books > Italy > Bologna > Specimens.

Rhyming slang > England > London.

English language > Dialects > England > London.

English language > Dialects.

East End (London, England) > Languages > Texts.

England > London.

England > London > East End.

Italy > Bologna.

Specimens.

Texts.

Artists' books - Italy - Bologna - 2012.

Accordion fold format (Binding)