Mother Goose's melodies. The only pure edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her memorable writings, together with all those which have been discovered among the mss. of Herculaneum. Likewise every one recently found in the same stone box which hold [sic] the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. The whole compared, revised, and sanctioned, by one of the annotators of the Goose family. With many new engravings.

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Lot #96Mother Goose's melodies. The only pure edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her memorable writings, together with all those which have been discovered among the mss. of Herculaneum. Likewise every one recently found in the same stone box which hold [sic] the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. The whole compared, revised, and sanctioned, by one of the annotators of the Goose family. With many new engravings.

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(Mother Goose)

Title:

Mother Goose's melodies. The only pure edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her memorable writings, together with all those which have been discovered among the mss. of Herculaneum. Likewise every one recently found in the same stone box which hold [sic] the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. The whole compared, revised, and sanctioned, by one of the annotators of the Goose family. With many new engravings.

Author:

**

Place Published:

Boston

Publisher:

Munroe and Francis

Date Published:

1833

Description:

96 (lacking page 33/34) pp. Illustrated with wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, Abel Bowen, Nathaniel Dearborn, Alonzo Hartwell, and others. 5½x4½, cloth.

Early and quite rare American edition of Mother Goose, with the provocative claim that the melodies had been found in the same stone box as the Golden Plates of the Book of Mormon, which had been published in 1830. There were a number of editions published by Monroe and Francis, and C.S. Francis, beginning around 1832, and some possibly as late as 1845. There are about a dozen copies of the various editions listed in the RLG Union Catalogue, with various differences. The present copy has an "alphabet rhyme" on pp. 93-4, which continued to page 95, with advertisement on page 96.

Condition:

Edge wear and rubbing to cloth; lacks page 33/34; chip to page 53/54, title page soiled in margins and with tear repair, dampstaining, especially to rear pages, finger smudging; good.

Item#:

203201

Headline:

Mother Goose's Melodies 1833
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