Mother Goose's Melody or Sonnets for the Cradle

The Earliest Known Edition. With an Introduction and notes by W. F. Pridauz.

A collection of nursery songs was made in Boston as early as 1719: Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. A copy was said to have been discovered in an old antiquarian library not very long ago, but afterwards could not be found. I meant to reprint this copy-it was somewhat imperfect-for the good of the world. Mother Goose's Melodies continues to be printed, but no one thinking fidelity of t...