Chapter XI: Appendix: A

MOTHER GOOSE PUBLICATIONS

Nearly every publisher in France, and many of those in England and the United States, have issued editions of Mother Goose stories. Most of those from France have been reprints, with variation, of the originals by Perrault: Boussod; B. Bernardin; Biblioth. Nat.; MM. Chavery; Dentu; Flammarion; Boulanger; Lemerre; Bornemann; Cattier; Duployé; Fayard; E. Guérin; Hachette; G. Delarue; Garnier Frères; Magnin.

The editions of Mother Goose fairy tales and nursery rhymes in England and the United States are given in the publishers’ catalogues with essays on the same subject as follows:

_MOTHER GOOSE:_

_The Original Mother Goose’s Melodies as First Issued about
1760._ W. H. WHITMORE. 1890. Munsell.

---- _Fairy Tales of Mother Goose_, first collected by
Perrault, 1696. 1892. Damrell.

_Favourite Rhymes from Mother Goose._ MAUD HUMPHREY. 1891–1893.
Stokes.

_Nursery Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles._ 1890. Routledge.

_Contes des fées_, with notes and vocabulary. 1884. Macmillan.

_Fairy Tales._ 1877–1882. Routledge.

_Tales from Perrault_, translated by J. R. Planche, 1860. 1891.
Routledge.

_Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes._ Illustrated by K.
Greenaway, 1881. Routledge.

_Mother Goose Goslings._ E. W. TALBOT. Cassell, P., G. & Co.

_Mother Goose Rhymes_, with silhouette illustrations by J. F.
Goodrich, 1877. 1879. Lee & Shepard.

_Mother Goose Masquerades._ Mrs. E. D. KENDALL. Lee & Shepard.

_Mother Goose Melodies._ Illustrated. 1879. Lippincott.

_Mother Goose Melodies, with Chimes, Rhymes, and Jingles_, with
pictures designed by Billings and engraved by Hartwell. 1878.

_Mother Goose Set to Music._ New edition. Illustrated. 8°.
1877. McLoughlin.

_Mother Goose Fairy Tales_, illustrated by eminent artists.
1877. New edition, 1882. Routledge.

_Mother Goose Melodies, or Songs for the Nursery._ Illustrated
in color by A. Kappes. 1879. Houghton, Osgood & Co.

_Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes._ Collection of alphabets,
rhymes, tales, and jingles. Illustrated. 1876. New edition,
1882. Routledge.

_Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes._ Illustrated. 1877. McLoughlin.

_Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales._ Illustrated.
1877. Routledge.

_Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales._ 1891. Routledge.

_Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales._ 1892–1896. Nister.

“Mother Goose’s Melodies.” JOEL BENTON. New York _Times,
Saturday Review_, Feb. 5, 1899.

“Who Was Mother Goose?” THOMAS WILSON. _St. Nicholas._

An investigation of the foregoing volumes will show a series of Mother Goose stories other than those written by Perrault. These are well-known rhymes and jingles principally from England, and are of indefinite and undetermined age.

The edition above mentioned by W. H. Whitmore, gives its history of the English and American Mother Goose. The collection was first made for and by John Newbery of London, about A.D. 1760. Its popularity was due to the Boston editions of Monroe & Francis, A.D. 1824–1860.

The first rhyme in these editions was styled “A Love Song”:

“There was a little man,
Who wooed a little maid;
And he said, ‘Little maid,
Will you wed, wed, wed?’”

Mr. Whitmore examines the claim made for the first time in 1856 that the origin of these melodies was due to Mrs. Elizabeth Goose, or Vergoose, of Boston, and that her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet, published a volume containing them in 1719, and pronounces the claim without foundation.