The Real Mother Goose

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1916 (1941). First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Green-cloth multicolored oblong folio in b&w DJ, unpaginated, approx. 132 pages, color frontispiece, color illustrations; 31 x 26 cm. Very little wear to spine foot, gently bumped rear corners, barely rubbed corners, clean pages in tight binding, else Very good(+). Hardcover.

Scarce in DJ. Goosey goosey gander series. DJ protected in archival mylar wrap. A collection of illustrated Mother Goose rhymes such as Old Mother Hubbard and Goosey, goosey, gander. Contents: Little Bo-Beep --; Little Boy Blue --; Rain --; Clock --; Winter --; Fingers and toes --; Seasonable song --; Dame trot and her cat --; Three children on the ice --; Cross patch --; Old woman under a hill --; Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee --; Oh dear! --; Old Mother Goose --; Little Jumping Joan --; Pat-a-cake --; Money and the mare --; Robin Redbreast --; Melancholy song --; Jack --; Going to St. Ives --; Thirty days hath September --; Baby Dolly --; Bees --; Come out to play --; If wishes were horses --; To market --; Old chairs to mend --; Robin and Richard --; Man and a maid --; Here goes my lord --; Clever hen --; Two birds --; Leg over leg; Lucy Locket --; When Jenny Wren was young --; Barber --; Flying pig --; Solomon Grundy --; Hush-a-bye --; Burnie Bee --; Three wise men of Gotham --; Hunter of Reigate --; Little Polly Flinders --; Ride away, ride away --; Pippen Hill --; Pussy-cat and queen --; Winds --; Clap handies --; Christmas --; Elizabeth --; Just like me --; Play days --; Heigh-ho, the carrion crow --; ABC --; Needle and thread --; Banbury Cross --; Man in our town --; Georgy Porgy --; For every evil --; Cushy cow --; Wee Willie Winkie --; About the bush --; See-saw --; Robin-a-bobbin --; John Smith --; Simple Simon --; Three blind mice --; Five toes; Little man --; Doctor Foster --; Diddle diddle dumpling --; Jerry Hall --; Lengthing days --; Black hen --; Mist --; Candle --; Miss Muffet --; Curly-locks --; Humpty Dumpty --; One, two, three --; Dove and the wren --; Master I have --; Pins --; Shall we go a-shearing? --; Goosey, goosey, gander --; Old Mother Hubbard --; Cock and the hen --; Blue bell boy --; Why may not I love Johnny? --; Jack Jelf --; Jack Sprat --; Hush-a-bye --; Daffodils --; Girl in the lane --; Nancy Dawson --; Handy Pandy --; Jack and Jill --; Alphabet --; Dance to your daddie --; One misty moisty morning --; Robin Hood and Little John --; Rain --; Old woman from France; Teeth and gums --; Robins --; Old man --; T'other little tune --; My kitten --; If all the seas were one sea --; Pancake day --; Plum pudding --; Forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose,etc. --; Two pigeons --; Sure test --; Lock and key --; Lion and the unicorn --; Merchants of London --; I had a little husband --; To Babylon --; I'll tell you a story --; Strange old woman --; Sleep, baby, sleep --; Cry, baby --; Baa, baa, black sheep --; Little Fred --; Cat and the fiddle --; Doctor Fell --; Counting-out rhyme --; Jack and his fiddle --; Buttons --; Hot boiled beans --; Little Pussy --; Sing a song of sixpence --; Tommy Tittlemouse --; Derby ram --; Hobby-horse --; Mulberry bush --; Young lambs to sell --; Boy and the sparrow --; Old woman, old woman --; First of May --; Sulky Sue --; House that Jack built; Saturday, Sunday --; Little Jenny Wren --; Old woman and the pedlar --; Bobby Snooks --; Little Moppet --; I saw a ship a-sailing --; Walnut --; Man in the moon --; One, he loves --; Bat, bat --; Hark! Hark! --; Hart --; My love --; Man of Bombay --; Poor old Robinson Crusoe! --; Sieve --; My maid Mary --; Difficult rhyme --; Pretty John Watts --; Good advice --; I love sixpence --; Bye, baby bunting --; Tom, Tom, the piper's son --; Comical folk --; Cock-crow --; Tommy Snooks --; Three sons --; Blacksmith --; Two gray kits --; One, two, buckle my shoe --; Cock-a-doodle-do! --; Pairs or pears --; Belleisle --; Old King Cole --; See, see --; Dapple-gray --; Well; Coffee and tea --; Pussy-cat mew --; Little girl with a curl --; Dreams --; Cock and bull story --; For baby --; Myself --; Over the water --; Candle-saving --; Fears and tears --; Kilkenny cats --; Old Grimes --; Week of birthdays --; Chimmey --; Ladybird --; Man who had naught --; Tailors and the snail --; Around the green gravel --; Intery, mintery --; Ceasar's song --; As I was going along --; Hector Protector --; Billy, Billy --; Rock-a-bye, baby --; Man in the wilderness --; Little Jack Horner --; Bird Scarer --; Mary, Mary, quite contrary --; Bessy Bell and Mary Gray --; Needles and pins --; Pussy-cat and the dumplings; Dance, Thumbkin, dance --; Mary's canary --; Little bird --; Birds of a feather --; Dusty miller --; Star --; Greedy man --; Ten o'clock scholar --; Cock-a-doodle-do --; Icicle --; Ship's nail --; Old woman of Leeds --; Boy in the barn --; Sunshine --; Willy, Willy --; Tongs --; Jack Jingle --; Quarrel --; Pumpkin-eater --; Shoeing --; Betty Blue --; That's all --; Bedtime --; Dance, little baby --; My little maid --; For want of a nail --; Pease porridge --; Ring a ring o' roses --; Crooked sixpence --; This is the way --; Ducks and drakes --; Donkey --; If --; Bells --; Little girl and queen --; King of France --; Peter Piper --; One to ten --; Equal --; Tarts --; Come, let's to bed --; Little maid; What are little boys made of? --; Bandy legs --; Girls and the birds --; Pig --; Jenny Wren --; Little Tom Tucker --; Where are you going, my pretty maid? --; Old woman of Gloucester --; Multiplication is vexation --; Little King Boggen --; Whistle --; Bell horses --; Taffy --; Robin --; Old woman of Harrow --; Young Roger and Dolly --; Piper and his cow --; Man of Derby --; Coachman --; There was an old woman --; Thorn --; Old woman of Surrey --; Little mouse --; Boy and girl --; When --; Sing, sing --; London Bridge --; March winds --; Balloon --; Cherry --; Lost shoe --; Hot codlins; Swan --; Three straws --; Man of Tobago --; Ding, dong, bell --; Sunshiny shower --; Farmer and the raven --; Christmas --; Willy boy --; Polly and Sukey --; Death and burial of poor Cock Robin --; Mouse and the clock --; Hot-cross buns --; Bobby Shaftoe --; Bunch of blue ribbons --; Woman of Exeter --; Sneezing --; Pussy-cat by the fire --; When the snow is on the ground.