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Mother Goose's melody: or, Sonnets for the cradle. In two parts. Part I. Contains the most celebrated songs, and lullabies of the good old nurses, calculated to amuse children and to excite them to sleep. Part II. Those of that sweet songster and nurse of wit and humour, Master William Shakespeare.

Title
Mother Goose's melody: or, Sonnets for the cradle. In two parts. Part I. Contains the most celebrated songs, and lullabies of the good old nurses, calculated to amuse children and to excite them to sleep. Part II. Those of that sweet songster and nurse of wit and humour, Master William Shakespeare. Embellished with cuts, and illustrated with notes and maxims, historical, philosophical, and critical.
Publication
New York, F.G. Melcher, 1945]

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Additional Authors
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
  • Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
  • Melcher, Frederic Gershom, 1879-1963
  • Children's Room Collection
Description
x, [11]-94 p., 1 l. incl. front., illus.; 9.5 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Mother Goose's melody.
  • Sonnets for the cradle
Subject
  • Nursery rhymes
  • Children's rhymes
Genre/Form
  • Juvenile literature – Massachusetts – Worcester – 1794 – Facsimiles.
  • Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1945.
Note
  • "Books for the instruction and amusement of children, which will make them wise and happy, printed and sold by I. Thomas, in Worcester, Massachusetts": 1 leaf at end.
  • Includes music (march tune of King Henry V), p. vi.
  • "Part II. Containing the lullabies of Shakespear," p. [75]-94.
Reproduction (note)
  • Reproduced from the original in the American Antiquarian society.
Binding (note)
  • Copy in *KH bound in color printed decorative paper wrappers.
Call Number
*KD 1794 (Mother Goose. Mother Goose's melody)
OCLC
4251828
Title
Mother Goose's melody: or, Sonnets for the cradle. In two parts. Part I. Contains the most celebrated songs, and lullabies of the good old nurses, calculated to amuse children and to excite them to sleep. Part II. Those of that sweet songster and nurse of wit and humour, Master William Shakespeare. Embellished with cuts, and illustrated with notes and maxims, historical, philosophical, and critical.
Imprint
New York, F.G. Melcher, 1945]
Edition
The second Worcester edition. Worcester, (Massachusetts) Printed by Isaiah Thomas, and sold at his bookstore. MDCCXCIV. [facsim. repr.
Reproduction
Reproduced from the original in the American Antiquarian society.
Local Note
Copy 1: Bound in half morocco by John Archer.
Copy 2: In original flowered paper covers.
Copy 2: "This keepsake of the Newbery-Caldecott luncheon ... June 9, 1945, is given by Albert Whitman as a tribute to Frederic Melcher."
Binding
Copy in *KH bound in color printed decorative paper wrappers. NN
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Added Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. Selections.
Melcher, Frederic Gershom, 1879-1963, publisher
Children's Room Collection.
Added Title
Mother Goose's melody.
Sonnets for the cradle
Research Call Number
*KD 1794 (Mother Goose. Mother Goose's melody)
*KH 1945 Mother 16-632
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