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Mother Goose

18thC
Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle
(c1765 Newbery)
Mother Goose's Tales
(1768 Francis Newbery & Thomas Carnan)
Mother Goose's Tales by Charles Perrault
(1777 Newbery & Collins. 7th Ed)
Mother Goose's Melody
(c1785 Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass)
[The earliest surviving copy of this book was published in 1791 by Francis Power]

1815-1850
The Entertaining Tales of Mother Goose
(c1815 Lunsden)
Mother Goose's Melody
(1817 Marshall)
Tales of Mother Goose
(c1820 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh)
Mother Goose's Quarto, or Melodies Complete
(c1825 Munroe & Francis, Boston)
[Only one known copy survives]
The Only True Mother Goose Melodies
(1833 Munroe & Francis, Boston)
[Maybe a 100,000 copies were printed but few survive]
A New Mother Goose and the Golden Eggs
(c1845 Dean & Co)

1851-1875
Mother [Goose] in Hieroglyphics : Part First
(1853 E H Babcock, NY)
Mother Goose, or Harlequin and the Golden Egg
(1864 London)
Mother Goose's Melodies
(1870 Porter & Coates, Phila)
Mother Goose's Melodies for Children
(1872 London) - H L Stephens & G Fay

1876-1890
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
(1877 Routledge) - Sir John Gilbert, John Tenniel et al
Mother Goose's Jingles
(1878 Nister) - Harrison Weir, Walter Crane et al
Mother Goose Rhymes & Jingles
(c1878 McLoughlin, NY)
Mother Goose's Mursey Rhymes & Fairy Tales
(1878 Routledge) - 2 vols
The Original Mother Goose Melodies
(1880 Lee & Shepard, Boston / Dillingham, NY) - J F Goodridge
Mother Goose, or The Old Nursery Rhymes
(1881 Routledge) - Kate Greenaway
Old Mother Goose and Her Son Jack
(c1885 McLoughlin)
Old Mother Goose & other Rhymes
(1886 Routledge) - H Weir
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, Tales and Jingles
(1890 Warne)
Choice Selections from Mother Goose's Melodies
(c1890 Pond's Extract Co, London) - Louis Rhead
Old Mother Goose's Rhymes and Tales
(1890 Warne) - Constance Haslewood

1891-1900
Little Mother Goose
(1892 Ward) - Jessie Watkins
The New Mother Goose Melodies
(1895 Monarch Book Co, Chicago)
Mother Goose
(1895 McLoughlin, NY) - Shapebook
Mother Goose in Prose by L Frank Baum
(1897 Chicago) - Maxfield Parrish
Little Mother Goose
(c1898 Mcloughlin, NY)
New Mother Goose Melodies
(1899 Lothrop, Boston)
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
(1900 Lippincott) - F Opper

1901-1910
Denslow's Mother Goose
(1901 NY) (1902 Chambers) - W W Denslow
Mother Goose Complete : Nursery Rhymes, Tales & Jingles
(1902 Regan, Chicago)
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
(1903 Dent) - Mabel Chadburn
The Only True Mother Goose Melodies
(1905 Lothrop, Boston) - Facsimile of 1833 Boston Edition
Mother Goose
(1910 Raphael Tuck) - Mabel Lucie Attwell
Mother Goose Jingles
(c1910 Nister)
Mother Goose ABC
(c1910 Dean)
Mother Goose Rhymes
(c1910 Dean) - H G C Marsh

1911-1914
Jolly Mother Goose Annual
(1912 Rand McNally, Chicago & NY) - Blanche Fisher Wright
(1914 Harrap)
Mother Goose : The Old Nursery Rhymes
(1913 Heinemann) + 1130 signed - Arthur Rackham
The Little Mother Goose
(1914 Dodd Mead) - Jessie Willcox Smith

1915-1920
Mother Goose
(1915 David McKay, Phila) - Monro S Orr
Wrigley's Mother Goose
(1915 Wm Wrigley, Jnr)
Mother Goose
(1915 Volland, Chicago) - Frederick Richardson
Mother Goose Her Rhymes
(1915 Saalfield) - H B Matthews
The Real Mother Goose
(1916 Rand McNally, Chicago) - Blanche Fisher Wright
All About Mother Goose
(1916 Cupples & Leon) - John Gruelle
Everychild's Mother Goose
(1918 Macmillan, NY) - Edith R Wilson
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
(1919 A & C Black) - Charles Folkard
The Boyd Smith Mother Goose
(1920 Putnam) - E Boyd Smith
Mother Goose's Rag Book
(c1920 Dean's Rag Book Co)

1921-1930
(Ed) Eulalie Osgood : Mother Goose (1921 Volland, Chicago) - Frederick Richardson
The Old Mother Goose Rhyme Book
(1926 Nelson) - Anne Anderson
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
(1928 Collins) - Charles Robinson
Mother Goose : Nursery Rhymes
(1929 Ward Lock) - Margaret W Tarrant
Willy Pogany's Mother Goose
(1929 Nelson) - Willy Pogany
Mother Goose Nursery Tales
(1920s J Coker, London) - Margaret Tarrant

1931-1950
Mother Goose
(1932 Harrap) - Sybil Tawse
Mother Goose Rhymes
(1932 Platt & Munk) - Eulalie & Lois Lenski
The Pop-Up Mother Goose
(1933 Blue Ribbon Books, NY) - Harold B Lenz. 3 Pop-Ups
Mother Goose : Her Best Known Rhymes
(1933 Saalfield) - Fern Bisel Peat
Mother Goose Rhymes
(1935 Coker) - S B Pearse & Winifred M Ackroyd
Mother Goose
(1944 Walck) (1944 Oxford) - Tudor Tasha
The Julian Wehr Mother Goose
(1945 Grosset & Dunlap, NY)
Mother Goose
(c1945 Juvenile Productions) - A E Kennedy
The Mother Goose Book
(1946 Peter Pauper Press) - Sonia Roetter
The Big Book of Mother Goose
(1946 Foulsham)
Adventures with Mother Goose
(1948 Pilot Press)

Since 1951
Mother Goose : The Old Nursery Rhymes
(1952 Heinemann) - 2 vols. Arthur Rackham
Book of Nursery Rhymes and Mother Goose Rhymes
(1954 Doubleday) - Marguerite De Angeli
A Mother Goose ABC in a Pumpkin Shell
(1960 Harcourt) (1961 Collins) - Joan Walsh Anglund
The Annotated Mother Goose : By William & Cecil Baring-Gould
(nd. 1962 Bramhall House, NY) - Walter Crane et al
Mother Goose in Hieroglyphicks
(1963 Gollancz)
The Real Mother Goose
(1963 Collins) - Blanche Fisher Wright
Mother Goose
(1964 OUP) - Brian Wildsmith
A Mother Goose Treasury
(1966 Hamish Hamilton) (1966 Coward McCann) - Raymond Briggs
Mother Goose
(1967 Windmill, Harper NY) - Charles Addams
The City & Country Mother Goose
(1969 American Heritage Press) - Hidle Hoffmann
Favorite Nursery Rhymes : Mother Goose
(1970 Hallmark) - Pat Paris. 4 Pop-Ups
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
(1970 Grabhorn Press, SF) - 300. Philip Van Aver
The Mother Goose Book
(1976 NY) - Alice & Martin Provensen
(Ed) Michael Hague : Mother Goose - A Collection of Nursery Rhymes (1984 Holt US)
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose : The Opie Rhyme Book by Peter & Iona Opie
(1988 Walker)

Related Writers

Anne Anderson
Mabel Lucie Attwell
Walter Crane
Edinburgh
Charles Perrault
Willy Pogany
Arthur Rackham
Charles Robinson


See also

Lyman Frank Baum
Raymond (redvers) Briggs
Caldecott Award, 1938-1974
Everyman Series 1-500
Maxwell Grant
(catherine) Kate Greenaway
Greenaway, Kate Medal Winners
Johnny (john Barton) Gruelle
John Newbery
Ernest Nister
Nonesuch Press, The
Ernest Percival Rhys
Richard Mcclure Scarry
Herbert Strang
Margaret Winifred Tarrant