Mother Goose Melodies Toybooks.

[ Smith, Jessie Wilcox ].

Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914 [.

About this Item

The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose was first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1914. There are no previous editions of these Toybooks, which were published in a set of twelve. The titles included here are Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Tuffet; Rain, Rain Go Away; Little Bo-peep; Mary, Mary Quite Contrary; Ring a-round a Rosie; See Saw, Margery Daw; Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt Thou Be Mine?; One Foot Up, the other Foot Down; Hush-a-bye-Baby On the Tree Top; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; and Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill. The missing title is There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. 11 of 12 booklets, 5 inches by 3 inches. 8 pp. each. With 4 black-and-white illustrations in each booklet to accompany the rhymes. Original stiff paper wrappers, each with a color reproduction of a different plate from The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose. With gilt border and lettering. Rear cover printed with an advertisement for Colgate talcum powder. Some creasing to pages and wrappers and some toning throughout the set. Open tear at fore-edge of page 3 in the Little Miss Muffet booklet (with no text or images affected). Overall a very good, clean, and attractive set. This is a rare set. There are only seven of these titles listed on OCLC and no more than three copies of each. The only significant holding for these toy books noted on OCLC is PrincetonÕs set of seven titles. Nudelman. Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, A40. Seller Inventory # 16754

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mother Goose Melodies Toybooks.

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914 [.

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good