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• Alphabet -- Folklore
• Nursery rhymes

• Rhyming alphabets

• ABC: An Alphabet Written and Pictured by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin (London: E. Mathews; Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1895), by Georgie Gaskin (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Fun (Los Angeles: Broadway Department Store, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Jingles (Syracuse, NY: G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co, 1920), by G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co (page images at Princeton)
• The Absurd ABC (London and New York: John Lane, c1874), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Alphabet of Fairy Tales (London: Gale and Polden, Ltd., 1920), by Doris Pailthorpe (page images at Princeton)
• Arthur's Book of Alphabets (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.) (page images at Princeton)
• Babes of the Empire: An Alphabet for Young England (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Thomas Stevens, illust. by A. H. Collins (page images at Princeton)
• The Bandit Bunny Alphabet and Other Stories (1901), by Charles M. Snyder, illust. by George Reiter Brill (page images at Princeton)
• Comic Animals and Their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Denslow's ABC Book (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1903), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Princeton)
• Edward Lear's ABC (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by Edward Lear (page images at Princeton)
• Fairy A B C (New York: McLoughlin Bros, ca. 1880) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning: or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ladder to Learning (Albany: R. H. Pease, 1852), by Miss Lovechild (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Moral Alphabet (London: E. Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Naval Alphabet (London: Sands and Co., ca. 1901), by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• Pumpkin Pie ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1900) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Wright's Alphabet Book (London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• An A.B.C. of Golf, by a Victim (New York: Blanchard Press, c1898), by De Witt Clinton Falls (PDF (enter the title of the book to get to the PDF) at USGA Museum)
• The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes: By Learning Which She Soon Got Rich (London: Printed For J. Harris and Son, 1820) (page images at Princeton)
• The Bicycle ABC (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1898), by I. Noys Lewis (page images at Princeton)
• The Children of Many Nations and the ABC (Rochester, NY: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916), by Carolyn S. Hodgman, illust. by William F. Stecher (page images at Princeton)
• The Child's Alphabet, Emblematically Described and Embellished by Twenty-Four Pictures, Brought Into Easy Verse, for the Tender Capacities of Young Readers: The Whole Contrived to Allure Children Into the Love of Learning (Glasgow: Printed by J. And M. Robertson, 1805) (page images at Princeton)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jolly Animal ABC (New York: McLoughin Bros., ca. 1890) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Keith ABC for Children (Boston: Publicity Department, Keith's Theatre, 1906), by James F. McNally, contrib. by B. F. Keith, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at Princeton)
• Laugh and Learn ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• The Mother's Picture Alphabet (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1887) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Old Aunt Elspa's ABC: We'll Soon Learn To Read, Then How Clever We'll Be (London: Field and Tuer; E.C. Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1884), by Joseph Crawhall (page images at Princeton)
• Take Your Choice! or, A Peep at my Playmates (London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1822), by Pat Playful (page images at Princeton)
• The Teddy Bear ABC (Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., c1907), by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illust. by Margaret Landers Sanford (page images at Princeton)
• Tom Thumb's Alphabet (London: W. Darton and Son, ca. 1836) (page images at Princeton)
• The Union ABC (Boston: Degen, Estes, and Co., ca. 1864) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Health Cards (New York: American Child Health Association, 1915) (page images at Princeton)
• Goldfish at School: or, The Alphabet of Frank the Fisherman (London: Hodgson and Co., 1823) (page images at Princeton)
• The Union Label Alphabet For Little and Big Children (Chicago: Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America, 1905), by Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America (page images at Princeton)
• An A B C, for Baby Patriots (London: Dean and Son, 1899), by Mrs. Ernest Ames (page images at Florida)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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
• 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
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.