only true Mother Goose melodies.
Subtitle: An exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition
By: published and copyrighted in Boston in the year 1833 by Munroe & Francis. With introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D
Contributors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Publisher: Lee & Shepard
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Nursery rhymes
Work titles: Mother Goose
Notes: Reprint

Bound in printed paper boards with linen shelfback, having imprint of Monroe & Francis at foot of cover

"Published August, 1905"-T.p. verso

The editor, Harriet B.C. Butler, mistakenly reprinted the 1860 Cottrell edition containing the 'Requiscat' letter, not the 1833 one. Conf. Codman Hislop, "The Americanization of Mother Goose", The Colophon, n.s., v. 3, no. 3 (1938), p. 435-440

King Collection has variant copies: copy 1 with Lee and Shepard imprint, copy 2 adds publisher's device to Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. imprint, with early owner's signature on front free endpaper