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Mother Goose’s Melodies.The only Pure Edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her memorable writings, together with those which have been discovered among the mss. of Herculaneum, likewise every one recently found in the same stone box which hold the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. The whole compared, revised, and sanctioned, by one of the annotators of the Goose family. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1833.
Songs for Little Children. London: Bishop & Co., [1840]. —Eight pages: “Oranges and Lemons,” “High Diddle Diddle,” “Bah, Bah, Black Sheep,” “Ride a Cock-Horse,” with woodcut illustrations, the cover cut colored.
Mother Goose’s Melodies, selected and arranged by My Uncle Solomon. Stereotype edition. Portland: S. H. Colesworthy, 1847.
The
Mother Goose; Containing all the melodies
the old lady ever wrote. Wmbellished with an exact
likeness of the veritable Mother Goose, and Numerous
Engravings from Original Designs. Edited by Dame
Goslin. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1850. —Missing
frontispiece.
The
same. Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1851.
—Includes frontispiece.
Mother
Goose’s Melodies. New York: McLoughlin
Bros., [1864]. —A splendid colored edition cut in the
shape of Mother Goose herself. Only a small selection,
but unlike the earlier editions, this one has
first-rate illustrations.
Another
scan of the same copy, apparently after some
restoration work.
The Original Mother Goose Melodies, with silhouette illustrations by J. F. Goodridge. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1878.
Mother Goose’s Melodies or Songs for the Nursery. Will illustrations in color by Alfred Kappes. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. —A very large collection of rhymes. The illustrations are sparse but splendid.
Mother
Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes.
Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. London: Frederick Warne
and Co., [1881].
Another
copy.
The
same. New York: McLoughlin Bro’s, 1882.
The Mother Goose Goslings. By Eleanor W. Talbot. New York, London & Paris: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., 1882. —Exceptionally fine colored illustrations.
Mrs. Partington’s Mother Goose’s Melodies. Containing all the original rhymes of Mother Goose, besides many others of a similar character: and full directions for costumes and acting some of the principal pieces. With a choice selection of music, especially adapted to the rhymes. Edited by Uncle Willis. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889.
Mother Goose in Prose. By L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. —Bounty Books reprint of the 1901 edition from Geo. M. Hill Company. Baum takes the old rhymes as inspirations for imaginative new tales.
Mother Goose from Germany. Illustrated from designs by Ludwig Richter and others. Philadelphia: Frederick Leypoldt, 1864.
Fly away, Lady-bird, sad and forlorn!
Thy father away to the battle is gone;
Thy mother is living in Gunpowder-Land,
And soldiers have burnt it with brimstone and brand;
There blood has been running from daylight to dawn;
Fly away, Lady-bird, sad and forlorn.
National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Set to original music by J. W. Elliott. London: Novello, Ewer, and Co., [1872].
Chinese
Mother Goose Rhymes. Translated and
illustrated by Isaac Taylor Headland of Peking
University. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H.
Revell Company, 1900.
Another
copy.
From the preface: We have tried to reproduce the meaning of the original as nearly as possible; this has not always been an easy task. Let it be understood that these rhymes make no pretentions to literary merit, nor has the translator made any attempt at regularity in the meter, because neither the original nor our own “Mother Goose” is regular. Our desire has been to make a translation which is fairly true to the original, and which will please English-speaking children. The child, not the critic, has always been kept in view.
Popular Fairy Tales; or, A Liliputian Library; containing twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by those renowned personages King Oberon, Queen Mab, Mother Goose, Mother Bunch, Master Puck, and other distinguished personages at the court of the fairies. Now first collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. With twenty-six colored engravings. London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co., [1818].
From the Preface: Many collections of such stories have within the last century appeared in the English language; but many of them are so obsolete in their style, so gross in their morals, and so vulgar in their details, as to be altogether unfit for the purposes to which they seem to have been adapted. Of this fact, every tender mother, and every intelligent tutor, must be so sensible, that they will hail with satisfaction the appearance of a selection of the most interesting of these stories, in which an attempt is made to elevate the language and sentiments to a level with the refined manners of the present age.
Household Stories, from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm: Translated from the German by Lucy Crane; and done into pictures by Walter Crane. London: Macmillan & Co., 1922. (First edition printed 1882.)
Mother’s Manual, and Infant Instructer; designed for infant or primary schools, and families. Illustrated with about 300 cuts, all of which are correctly explained in the alphabet of nature, and adapted to a regular course of infant instruction. By M. M. Carll. Second edition, improved and enlarged. Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, 1833.