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Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle : in two parts : part I contains the most celebrated songs and lullabies of the good old nurses, calculated to amuse children and to excite them to sleep : part II: those of that sweet songster and nurse of wit and humour, Master William Shakespeare : embellished with cuts, and illustrated with notes and maxims, historical, philosophical, and critical.

Accession number
PML 81026
Published
Worcester (Massachusetts) : Printed by Isaiah Thomas, and sold at his bookstore, 1794.
Credit line
Gift of Anne Lyon Haight, 1970.
Notes
Title, edition and imprint from Welch.
The English edition from which this is taken was probably edited by Oliver Goldsmith. Cf. Rosenbach.
Signatures: [A]⁸ B-F⁸.
First leaf pasted to paper cover.
Advertisement, p. [95-96].
Library's copy lacking pp. [i-iv].
Description
x, [1], 12-94, [2] p. : ill., music ; 97 mm (32mo)
Provenance
Bookplate of Anne Lyon Haight, with her note of purchase at sale of W.H. Whitmore's library.
Binding
Disassembled, silked and rebound in limp leather, 13 cm high.
Classification
Department