Mother Goose Rhymes / c.1894-1910 : Pamphlet. c.1894-1910.

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, New York : McLoughlin Bros, 2020.

64 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm

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"Some rhymes include directions for games that can be played while reciting the verses. Cover title: Rhymes from Mother Goose illustrated in colors. "148"--inventory number, upper cover. Collections of Mother Goose rhymes were issued with this inventory number and under variations of this title between at least 1886 and 1914. "148 [Mother Goose] rhymes, [colored] 18 00 [per gross]--Confidential price-list and telegraph code (McLoughlin Bros., 1894), p. 4. Issue in hand bears bears a chromolithographed color picture of the three men sailing in a tub. The cover design is characteristic of McLoughlin picture books issued roughly between 1890 and 1910. In the McLoughlin Brothers' eighty-sixth annual catalogue (1914), Mother Goose's rhymes issued with a similar cover design was listed under inventory number 147. Pages numbered 65-128. In stiff-paper cover. Illustrations printed in color by a relief process (zinc etching?). Colored pictorial borders appear on each page. Illustrations variouly signed by "EGD" (i.e., Edward Gurdon Dalziel?), "HSM" (i.e., Henry S. Marks?), "Arnold sc.," and "Dalziel." Title plate design signed by "E. Nister" (i.e., lithographer Ernest Nister?)."

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