[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 [sic] the golden plates of the Book of Mormon: the Whole compared revised and sanctioned by one of the annotators of the the Goose family].

Date:

[1833]

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH M917 G66 1833 LOCAL

Publisher:

[Munroe and Francis]

Physical Description:

96 pages : illustrations ; 14 cm

Notes:

Special Collections' copy imperfect: Title page, front and back covers, bottom half of 1st page are wanting. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

[Munroe & Francis (Boston: 128 Washington Street) / C.S. Francis (NY), c 1833, ]; lacks covers, title page, and bottom half of 1st page of text [5], 14cm, 96pp; caption title is Goose's Melodies, running head is Mother Goose's Melodies; this copy seems to be an early printing ('Family One' according to Bleiler's categories, since it includes the 'annotator's' note on pages 94-95 and the Mother Goose illustration and verse on p. 96; later editions exhibit changes and rearrangements in both text and illustration (compare Bleiler's 1970 Dover facsimile reprint of another, later, printing , YH m917 g66abc 1970 ); there are various illustrations signed by the engravers, Abel Bowen, Nathaniel Dearborn, Shobeal D. Childs and 'H' (Alonzo Hartwell? or J.H. Hall? ), but none by Alexander Anderson who does show up in later 'Family Two' variant printings; most illustrations are handcolored; lacks original covers; owner has made new stiff paper wrappers covered with brown fabric decorated in yellow and red, and text block is sewn (too tightly) with pink thread

Subjects:

Nursery rhymes, Children's poetry, Children's poetry, and Nursery rhymes