Details

Subject(s)

• Mother Goose Selections [Browse]

Lithographer

• Nister, Ernest [Browse]

Illustrator

• Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 [Browse]

Publisher

• McLoughlin Bros [Browse]

Engraver

• Dalziel Brothers [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Nursery rhymes [Browse]
• Printed wrappers (Binding)—19th century [Browse]

Notes

• "No. 148"--McLoughlin inventory no. printed at lower left of upper cover.
• McLoughlin catalogs from the 1890s list No. 148 as "Mother Goose's Rhyme's," one of their 30 cent "Mother Goose Editions," with 64 p. "printed in colors" and "showy stiff wrappers, in colors" and No. 144 as a similar, but cheaper (20 cents) vol., printed "plain"; earlier catalogs list similar titles without item nos., while early 20th c. catalogs list No. 148 as "Mother Ryhmes," having "64 pages and many full colored pictures" and picture a different cover (the cover of no. 147 is shown with a similar cover to this copy).
• Some rhymes include directions for games that can be played while reciting the verses.
• T.p. with two-color ill., showing two children on a see-saw, and 50 colored wood-engravings within the (black) text, set within pictorial borders in orange or green depicting various nursery rhyme characters (with no running title).
• Some ills. signed "Dalziel," with one additionally signed "HSM" (Marks?), and t.p. ill. signed "E. Nister."

Binding note

Pub. stiff yellow hatched-pattern wrappers, upper with pictorial chromolithograph showing the Three Men in a Tub between two blue banners with two geese; lettering in red and black

Other title(s)

• Rhymes from Mother Goose
• Mother Goose's rhymes
• Mother rhymes

OCLC

191236317

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