Chapter XII: Section II: Mother Goose Jingles and Nursery Rhymes

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. IMPORTANT IN TRACING THE MOTHER GOOSE CANON

c. 1760. _Mother Goose's Melody._ [Published by
John Newbery, London.]

No copy of this issue known to be in existence.

c. 1783. Ritson, Joseph, _Gammer Gurton's Garland, or the Nursery Parnassus_. [1810, enlarged.]

c. 1785. _Mother Goose's Melody._ [Reprint of Newbery, by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass.]

[1889. Whitmore, W. H., _The Original Mother
Goose's Melody_, as first issued by John
Newbery, of London, about A.D. 1760. Reproduced
in _facsimile_ from the edition as reprinted by
Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., about A.D.
1785. With introduction and notes.]

1824 ff. _Mother Goose's Quarto, or Melodies Complete._ [Various issues by Munroe and Francis, Boston.]

[Hale, Edward Everett, _The Only True Mother
Goose Melodies_. Exact reproduction of the text
and illustrations of the original edition
(_Mother Goose's Melodies: The Only Pure
Edition_) printed in Boston in 1834 by Monroe
and Francis. With an introduction.]

1826. Chambers, Robert, _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. [1870, enlarged.]

1834. Ker, John Bellenden, _An Essay on the Archaeology of Popular English Phrases and Nursery Rhymes_. [Supplemented 1840 and 1842.]

1842. Halliwell (Phillips), J. O., _The Nursery Rhymes of England_.

1849. Halliwell (Phillips), J. O., _Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales_.

1864. Rimbault, Edward F., _Old Nursery Rhymes with Tunes_.

II. IMPORTANT MODERN COLLECTIONS

Baring-Gould, Sabine, _A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes_.

Headland, I. T., _Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes_.

Jerrold, Walter, _The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes_.

Lang, Andrew, _The Nursery Rhyme Book_.

Newell, W. W., _Games and Songs of American Children_.

Saintsbury, G. E. B., _National Rhymes of the Nursery_.

Welsh, Charles, _A Book of Nursery Rhymes_.

Wheeler, William A., _Mother Goose's Melodies_.

III. NURSERY RHYMES WITH MUSIC

Crane, Walter, _The Baby's Bouquet, a Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes
and Tunes_.

Homer, Sidney, _Songs from Mother Goose_.

Le Mair, H. Willebeck, _Our Old Nursery Rhymes_.

Le Mair, H. Willebeck, _Little Songs of Long Ago_.

Perkins, Raymond, _Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs_.

IV. STUDIES

Bolton, H. C., _Counting-out Rhymes of Children, Their Antiquity,
Origin, and Wide Distribution_.

Earle, Alice Morse, _Child Life in Colonial Days_. [Especially
chap. xiv.]

Eckenstein, Lina, _Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes_.

Godfrey, Elizabeth, _English Children in the Olden Time_.
[Especially chap. ii.]

Gomme, A. B., _The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and
Ireland_. 2 vols.

Green, P. B., _The History of Nursery Rhymes_.

Halsey, Rosalie V., _Forgotten Books of the American Nursery_.

Field, W. T., _Fingerposts to Children's Reading_, pp. 193 ff.

Moses, M. J., _Children's Books and Reading_, pp. 40 ff.