The content is awesome as long as you're looking for a book of antique British nursery rhymes that are (naturally) not modernised, since the text came out quite a long time ago. This is a very comprehensive listing of nursery tales in the English language. (Amazon)
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born James Orchard Halliwell; 21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.