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Mother Goose's quarto, or, Melodies complete : some of which have recently been discovered among the manuscripts in Herculaneum, and of course have never before appeared in print : the others diligently compared with the emendations of the most approved annotators, the true readings restored, and corruptions expunged : with copious engravings.

Accession number
PML 81271
Published
Boston : Published by Munroe and Francis, No. 128 Washington Street, [between 1824 and 1833]
Notes
Cover title: Goose's quarto. Illustrated with 70 cuts.
Washington Street in Boston was named Cornhill before 1824. Copy in Am. Antiquarian Society, with slight differences, has an inscription from 1827. In 1833, Munroe & Francis published the collection with the name Mother Goose's melodies.
Ill. engraved by Shubael D. Childs, Nathaniel Dearborn, Abel Bowen and Alonzo Hartwell.
Imperfect? Lacks first leaf of signature l (frontispiece?).
Description
[3], 6-118 p. : ill. ; 12 cm.
Binding
Ill. buff paper wrappers. Front cover ill. of Tom the piper's son (p. 41); back cover, ad with children looking at Munroe & Francis sign (ill. repeated inside cover).
Classification
Department