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Ernest Marsh
Mother Goose's Melody or Sonnets for the Cradle
Mother Goose's Melody or Sonnets for the Cradle
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The Earliest Known Edition. With an Introduction and notes by W. F. Pridauz.
A collection of nursery songs was made in Boston as early as 1719: Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. A copy was said to have been discovered in an old antiquarian library not very long ago, but afterwards could not be found. I meant to reprint this copy-it was somewhat imperfect-for the good of the world. Mother Goose's Melodies continues to be printed, but no one thinking fidelity of the least consequence, books bearing that title are arbitrarily altered, and filled out from Halliwell. The original collection teems to have been a very small affair, and the smaller the reprints the more chance of genuineness. I have ordered one which used to be sold in Boston. and will send it as soon as it comes to hand.'
A collection of nursery songs was made in Boston as early as 1719: Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. A copy was said to have been discovered in an old antiquarian library not very long ago, but afterwards could not be found. I meant to reprint this copy-it was somewhat imperfect-for the good of the world. Mother Goose's Melodies continues to be printed, but no one thinking fidelity of the least consequence, books bearing that title are arbitrarily altered, and filled out from Halliwell. The original collection teems to have been a very small affair, and the smaller the reprints the more chance of genuineness. I have ordered one which used to be sold in Boston. and will send it as soon as it comes to hand.'
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