CHARMING UNFINISHED WORK (NURSERY RHYMES.) Comstock, Enos Benjamin. Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Mock-up for a likely unpublished work. 16 pen-and-ink sheets featuring different nursery rhyme themes such as Pussy-Cat, The Merchants of London, Queen Anne, and others with decorative borders. 290x370 mm, sheets, marginal toning and printer's marks, pin marks in corners, artists name and address in ink on versos * 6 smaller hand-colored plates from the same work, 150x215 mm, images, mounted to board (soiled), images with scattered soiling and pencil notations. Oblong folio, contents loose as issued in plain folder titled as above, with "By Comstock" and Shelf. No. 4. at bottom. (New York, circa 1910)
Enos B. Comstock was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a student of John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer at the Art Institute of Chicago. He subsequently became an illustrator for Boy Scout publications and school books, books on Western America, and wrote and illustrated children's books including "Tuck-Me-In-Stories," "Fairy Frolics," "She and Allan," and "Mrs. Waterby and the Nine Little Waterbys" (Cotsen 11052). Several of his works are in the McLoughlin Bros. archives at the American Antiquarian Society. His style can most easily be compared to that of Charles Robinson, with Art Nouveau borders and tiny-eyed, cherubic-faced children.
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