Background:

These charming nursery rhyme prints are from an 1880s children's picture book published by Frederick Warne and Company of London.  Warne was also the publisher of Beatrix Potter's series of children's books.

The chromolithographs were produced by the English printing firm Kronheim and Company, founded by Joseph Kronheim (1810-1896).   Kronheim came to England from Germany in the mid-1830s settling first in Edinburgh as an engraver and lithographer.  He then moved to London and started his own printing business in the mid-1840s.

Each print is provided with a copy of the accompanying nursery rhyme.