The only true Mother Goose melodies : without addition or abridgement : embracing, also, a reliable life of the Goose family, never before published : numerous illustrations.
Accession number:
PML 80288
Uniform title:
Mother Goose.
Published:
Boston : J.S. Locke & Company ..., [1860 or later]
Description:
10, [3], 6-95, [1] pages : illustrated ; 14 cm
Notes:
"History of the Goose family," pp. 3-10 (first grouping) by John Fleet Eliot, first published in the Boston daily evening transcript, January 14, 1860. See The colophon, n.s. v.1 (1935): 167-182.
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Copyright 1833 by Munroe & Francis. Statement precedes imprint.
Ill. signed A.B. (Abel Bown), A.A. (Alexander Anderson), N.D. (Nathaniel Dearborn), H (Alonzo Hartwell), etc.
Last p. blank.
Layout and ill. similar to Munroe & Francis' edition of Mother Goose's melodies, slight textual variations, different sequence of poems.
On front cover: Locke & Bubier, Boston.
Binding:
Red and blue pictorial wrapper, in case.
Provenance:
Owner's stamp: F.W. Arms.
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