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• Rhymes, Nursery

• Mother Goose of Boston (with illustrations from an 1833 edition of The Only True Mother Goose; Scotia, NY: Americana Review, c1961) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humpty Dumpty and Some Other Funny People from Mother Goose (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by George M. Richards (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Around the Week (Algonquin Happy Book #152; New York: Algonquin Pub. Co., c1931), by Ruby Hart (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• An Alphabet of Old Friends, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Baby's Bouquet: A Fresh Bunch of Rhymes and Tunes (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Lucy Crane and Edmund Evans
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Beautiful Book of Nursery Rhymes, by Frank Adams (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (London: Blackie and Son, n.d.), ed. by Walter Jerrold, illust. by Charles Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Buckle-My-Shoe Picture Book: Containing One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; A Gaping-Wide-Mouth-Waddling-Frog; My Mother (London and New York: John Lane, ca. 1910), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Ann Taylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (New York: F. Warne and Co., c1922), by Beatrix Potter
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Chenodia: or, The Classical Mother Goose (in English, Latin, and Greek: Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1871), by Jacob Bigelow (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Complete Collection of Pictures and Songs (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Randolph Caldecott, contrib. by Edmund Evans and Austin Dobson (page images at LOC)
• Denslow's Mother Goose (New York : McClure, Phillips, 1901), by W. W. Denslow (page images at LOC)
• The Flight of the Old Woman Who Was Tossed Up in a Basket, by Aliquis (HTML and page images with commentary at nonsenselit.org)
• Golden Playdays (Baltimore: Children's Publishing Company, 1922), by C. J. Dorsey, illust. by Elsa Kaji and J. P. Anderson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Ida Waugh's Alphabet Book: For Little Ones Who, If They Look, Will Find Their Letters in This Book (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1888), by Amy Ella Blanchard, illust. by Ida Waugh (page images at Florida)
• Johnny Crow's Party: Another Picture Book (first edition, 1907), by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Little Bo Peep (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1890) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Little Miss Muffet (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1902) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Marquis of Carabas' Picture Book: Containing Puss in Boots; Old Mother Hubbard; Valentine and Orson; The Absurd ABC (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin and Walter Crane, illust. by Walter Crane and Edmund Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Metropolitan Mother Goose (New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., ca. 1920), by Elizabeth C. Watson, illust. by Emma Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mother Goose of '93 (with photographic illustrations; Boston: Joseph Knight Co., 1893), illust. by Mary A. Bartlett (page images at childrenslibrary.org)
• Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), illust. by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Mother Goose's Complete Melodies: A Collection of Rhymes, Tales, Jingles and Alphabets (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1892), illust. by John Gilbert, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, William McConnell, and Johann Baptist Zwecker (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes: A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1877), illust. by John Gilbert, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, William McConnell, and Johann Baptist Zwecker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mother Hubbard: Her Picture Book, Containing Mother Hubbard, The Three Bears, and The Absurd A.B.C. (London and New York: John Lane, ca. 1897), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Nursery Rhyme Book, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (No. 1; London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., n. d.), by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nursery Rhymes (on cover: "I: Songs and Ditties"; London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., ca. 1916), illust. by L. Leslie Brooke (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Only True Mother Goose Melodies: An Exact Reproduction of the Text and Illustrations of the Original Edition (based on the 1833 Boston edition), contrib. by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text)
• The Original Mother Goose Melodies, With Silhouette Illustrations (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. illingham, 1878), illust. by J. F. Goodridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Over in the Meadow (text of her counting rhyme, with sample cover illustrations from modern editions), by Olive A. Wadsworth (HTML with commentary at spoonercentral.com)
• Pinafore Palace (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1907), ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Real Mother Goose, illust. by Blanche Fisher Wright
  • illustrated HTML at designwest.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Rhymes and Jingles (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1875), by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Rhymes for Kindly Children: Modern Mother Goose Jingles (eleventh edition; Chicago et al.: P. F. Volland and Co., c1916), by Fairmont Snyder, illust. by Johnny Gruelle (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Ring o' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., n. d.), illust. by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (based on the 1893 edition), by Christina Georgina Rossetti (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Nursery Rhymes of Belgium, France and Russia (London: A. and C. Black, 1917), by L. Edna Walter, contrib. by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood and J.-B. Weckerlin, illust. by Alfred Bastien and Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Song of Sixpence Picture Book: Containing Sing a Song of Sixpence, Princess Belle Etoile, An Alphabet of Old Friends (London and New York: John Lane, ca. 1909), by Walter Crane
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Tommy Snooks and Other Mother Goose Rhymes (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., n.d.), illust. by Blanche Fisher Wright (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Walker's Nursery Rhymes (ca. 1813) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 5 Little Pigs (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1903), illust. by W. W. Denslow (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses (London: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Edmund Evans (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, ed. by S. Baring-Gould (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865), illust. by H. L. Stephens (page images at LOC)
• Denslow's Animal Fair (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1904), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Florida)
• Father Goose: His Book (second edition; Chicago: G. M. Hill Co., 1899), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by W. W. Denslow
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
• In the Nursery of My BookHouse (book 1 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • audio reading at Librivox and Internet Archive
• Journeys through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (10 volumes; Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Co., c1909), ed. by Charles Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lullaby: With Original Engravings, by John R. Bolles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nursery Rhymes (London: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1780) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Way to Wonderland (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1885), by Clara Doty Bates (page images at Florida)
• A Pocketful of Posies (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902), by Abbie Farwell Brown, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (York, UK: Printed by J. Kendrew, ca. 1820)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat (London: S. Marks and Sons, 1859)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple files at archive.org
• On the Tree-Top: Children's Favorite Stories (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891), contrib. by Clara Doty Bates, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and Edmund H. Garrett (page images at Florida)

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