". . . nursery rhymes can almost be seen as a model for what happened to the publication of children's books in general. Their treatment shows in miniature the shifts in taste and in publishing fashion that effected all books for children developed from the mid-eighteenth century onwards."

--from The Treasures of Childhood: Books Toys and Games from the Opie Collection. Iona and Robert Opie and Brian Alderson. New York: Arcade, 1989, p. 64.

The first set of bibliographies of Mother Goose books, divided into two parts to make it more manageable, is in chronological order and covers the span of time from the mid-18th century to the 21st century. Obviously, it is not complete. There are literally thousands of Mother Goose collections in print, and new ones are published each year. These collections vary in size, shape, illustrations, coverage of rhymes, and purpose or intent. What one will find in this bibliography is an overview of the range of Mother Goose books published, decade by decade, from the earliest volumes to the present.

• Mother Goose Bibliography Part 1
• Mother Goose Bibliography Part 2

The second bibliography includes primarily research and reference books used to verify the versions of the Mother Goose rhymes or contextual information about them.

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