Mother Goose's Melody
Distributed for Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
118 pages
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54 halftones
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2-1/2 x 4
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© 2003
First published in 1780, this was by far the most comprehensive and influential compilation of nursery rhymes. It is here that many of today's favorite rhymes make their first appearance in print, including "Hush-a-by-baby," "Ding dong bell," "High diddle diddle," and "Jack and Gill." Illustrated throughout with 52 delightful wood engravings by Thomas Bewick—long considered the finest of English wood engravers—this facsimile edition is bound in a copy of the gold-flecked Dutch floral paper similar to the original binding and presented in a handsome slipcase.
Contents
Introduction to the facsimile
Nigel Tattersfield
Facsimile
Preface
Part I: Contains the most celebrated songs and lullabies of the old British nurses, calculated to amuse children and to excite them to sleep
Part II: Those of that sweet songster and nurse of wit and humor, Master William Shakespeare
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