The Opie Collection of Children's Literature, MFE 5324
Reproductions of British children's books from the Bodleian Library.
The collection includes
1,100 chapbooks, battledores (two or three-page primers), and card-covered
toy books; 4,000 comics, children's magazines, and penny dreadfuls
(Victorian serials for children); and 12,000 bound volumes of children's
stories and nursery rhymes, books on games and amusements, picture books,
movable books, reversible books, rag books, miniatures, and other items.
