SECTION II. Mother Goose Jingles and Nursery Rhymes

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.]

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

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.