Title: Mother Goose's melodies. The only pure edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her memorable writings, together with all 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 Goose family. With many new engravings, besides being entered in the Massachusetts district clerk's office, and copy-right secured, 1833 Author: ** Place: Boston Publisher: Munroe and Francis Date: 1833-[1845?] Description: 94 [of 96] pp. Illustrated with wood engravings by Alexander Anderson Abel Bowen Nathaniel Dearborn, Alonzo Hartwell, and others. 5½x4½, original engraved pictorial front wrapper. Early and quite rare American edition of Mother Goose, with the provocative claim that the melodies had been found in the same stone box as the Golden Plates of the Book of Mormon, which had been published in 1830. Most of the melodies seem the standard ones, with some American usages. Among the more uncommon verses: "There was an old woman, and what do you think?/ She lived upon nothing, but victuals and drink:/ Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet,/ Yet this old lady scarce ever was quiet." "See Saw Margery Daw,/ Sold her bed, and lay upon straw./ Was not she a dirty slut,/ To sell her bed and lay in the dirt?" and "What care how black I be?/ Twenty pounds will marry me./ If twenty won't, forty shall,/ I'm my mother's bouncing girl." The illustrations, of which there are almost always one, and sometimes two, per page, are equally intriguing. A few have slight hand coloring. The bibliography of this book is somewhat uncertain. There were a number of editions published by Monroe and Francis, and C.S. Francis, beginning around 1832, and some possibly as late as 1845. There are about a dozen copies of the various editions listed in the RLG Union Catalogue, with various differences. The present copy has an "alphabet rhyme" on pp. 93-4, which continued to page 95, with adversement on page 96; however pages 95-96, and the rear wrapper, are not present. Lot Amendments Condition: Front wrapper worn and creased; some minor soiling and foxing within, else very good. Item number: 159151
Title: Mother Goose's melodies. The only pure edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her memorable writings, together with all 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 Goose family. With many new engravings, besides being entered in the Massachusetts district clerk's office, and copy-right secured, 1833 Author: ** Place: Boston Publisher: Munroe and Francis Date: 1833-[1845?] Description: 94 [of 96] pp. Illustrated with wood engravings by Alexander Anderson Abel Bowen Nathaniel Dearborn, Alonzo Hartwell, and others. 5½x4½, original engraved pictorial front wrapper. Early and quite rare American edition of Mother Goose, with the provocative claim that the melodies had been found in the same stone box as the Golden Plates of the Book of Mormon, which had been published in 1830. Most of the melodies seem the standard ones, with some American usages. Among the more uncommon verses: "There was an old woman, and what do you think?/ She lived upon nothing, but victuals and drink:/ Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet,/ Yet this old lady scarce ever was quiet." "See Saw Margery Daw,/ Sold her bed, and lay upon straw./ Was not she a dirty slut,/ To sell her bed and lay in the dirt?" and "What care how black I be?/ Twenty pounds will marry me./ If twenty won't, forty shall,/ I'm my mother's bouncing girl." The illustrations, of which there are almost always one, and sometimes two, per page, are equally intriguing. A few have slight hand coloring. The bibliography of this book is somewhat uncertain. There were a number of editions published by Monroe and Francis, and C.S. Francis, beginning around 1832, and some possibly as late as 1845. There are about a dozen copies of the various editions listed in the RLG Union Catalogue, with various differences. The present copy has an "alphabet rhyme" on pp. 93-4, which continued to page 95, with adversement on page 96; however pages 95-96, and the rear wrapper, are not present. Lot Amendments Condition: Front wrapper worn and creased; some minor soiling and foxing within, else very good. Item number: 159151
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