BIRMINGHAM ART SCHOOL. – S. BARING-GOULD (editor). A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes… with Illustrations by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the Direction of A.J. Gaskin. London: Methuen & Company, 1895. First edition, 8vo (201 x 132mm.) Half-title, later hand-colouring to borders and illustrations of the title and preliminaries. (Spotting to half-title and endpapers.) Original black cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed). – And a further thirty-one illustrated volumes (including ‘Little Red Riding Hood & The History of Tom Thumb’, illustrated by H. Isabel Adams, 1895, 12mo, and ‘The Annals of Fairy-Land’, illustrated by Charles Robinson, [1901], 8vo, and Charles Lamb’s ‘The Essays of Elia’, illustrated by A. Garth Jones, 1902, 4to, and Louey Chisholm’s ‘The Golden Staircase’, illustrated by M. Dibdin Spooner, 1906, 8vo, and Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué ‘s ‘Undine’, 1897, 8vo, and ‘The Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones’, 2 vols., 1906, 8vo, and Walter Crane’s ‘Baby’s own Aesop’, [circa 1900], small 4to, and ‘Walter Crane’s Painting Book’, [1889], small 4to) (32).