The following is the principle bibliography of Mother Goose books examined for Project ECLIPSE. The subject of this study made the construction of the bibliography difficult because of the confusion about the main entry for Mother Goose books. In checking catalogs and databases, as well as the physical books, we confirmed that Mother Goose herself is often given attribution as the author, a custom perpetuated on the title pages of many collections of these rhymes. Thus, Mother Goose books are found listed under Mother Goose as author, Mother Goose as title, under the name of compiler, selector, editor, or illustrator. Some even use the name of the publisher in the title and thus become, for instance, The Random House Book of Mother Goose.

Because of these inconsistencies, we decided to list all books in chronological order in as much as possible, and alphabetically within the chronological year, although exact publication dates for some early volumes are in doubt. There is one primary exception to this chronological order. In general, highly accurate facsimile editions were placed in the date order of the original publication. Although this is a rather extensive bibliography, there are many more collections of Mother Goose rhymes as well as picture book versions of individual rhymes. This list includes a range of both very expensive and beautiful editions as well as the less expensive, more popular versions.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, as First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester Mass., about A.D., 1785. With introductory notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, J. Munsell's Sons, 1889 [i.e. 1890]. Detroit, Singing Tree Press, 1969. Nurse Lovechild Tommy Thumb's Song Book, For All Little Masters and Misses, To Be Sung To Them By Their Nurses, Until They Can Sing Themselves. Worcester. MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1788. [This facsimile has been made from the only known copy of the 1788 edition, now in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society Fredrick G. Melcher. New York, 1946.]

Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Edited and Illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, with ninety engravings. Facsim. ed. [London, England : The Bodley Head] ; Tokyo : Holp Shuppan, 1981. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library. Originally published: London : Griffith and Farran, 1858.]

Mother [Goose] in Hieroglyphics. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. [Reprint of Boston: Frederick A. Brown & Co., 1849.]

Mother Goose's Melodies Set To Music. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [between 1871 and 1874]

Mother Goose Rhymes. New York: Mc Loughlin Bros., nd.

Mother Goose Melodies. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, 1878.

Caldecott, Randolph. R. Caldecott's Picture Book: The Diverting History of John Gilpin. The House That Jack Built. The Babes in the Wood. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. London, England; New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., [after 1879]

The Old Fashioned Mother Goose's Melodies Complete with Magic Colored Pictures. G. W. Carleton and CompanyDonaldson Brothers, 1879.

Goodridge, J. F. Mother Goose in White: Mother Goose Rhymes with Silhouette Illustrations. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1880. [copyright 1878]

Caldecott, Randolph. R. Caldecott's Picture Book, No.2: The Three Jovial Huntsmen. The Queen of Hearts. Sing a Song of Sixpence. The Farmer's Boy. Drawn by R.C. engraved and printed by E. Evans. London, England; New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [after 1882]

Caldecott, Randolph. The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book: Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid? Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting. A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go. The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. London, England: Frederick Warne & Co., [after 1883]

National Rhymes of the Nursery. Introduction by George Saintsbury and drawings by Gordon Browne. London, England: Wells, Gardner, Darton, [1895]

The Panjandrum Picture Book, by Randolph Caldecott; containing Come Lasses and Lads. Ride A Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross, and A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare. Mrs. Mary Blaize. The Great Panjandrum Himself. Drawn by R.C. engraved and printed by E. Evans. London, England; New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [after 1885]

Hand-painted ceramic moveable figurine of Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, from the UK

The Nursery Rhyme Book. Edited by Andrew Lang; Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. London; New York: Frederick Warne, 1897.

Mother Goose on Wheels. New York: Raphael Tuck and Sons, [ca. 1900] ["Untearable linen, Father Tuck's "Mother Goose Series. No. 1543]"

Wells, Carolyn. Mother Goose's Menagerie. Pictured by Peter Newell. Boston, MA: Noyes, Platt, 1901.

Old Mother Hubbard: The Old Rhymes and Jingles With New Pictures. Illustrated by Harry Otis Kennedy. Designed and Hand Lettered by Charles Jerome Costello. Chicago, IL: Jamieson-Higgins Co., 1902.

Bigham, Madge A. Stories of Mother Goose Village. Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Co., 1903.

Jones, Newton H. Newly Feathered Mother Goose. Philadelphia, PA: National Publishing Company, 1903.

The Only True Mother Goose Melodies: An Exact Reproduction of the Text and Illustrations of the Original Edition Published and Copyrighted in Boston in the Year 1833 by Munroe & Francis. Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1905.

Mother Goose's Picture Puzzles: A Book for Children, Combining Quaint Drawings, Hidden Objects in Each Picture, and Nursery Jingles. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus Co., 1906.

Mother Goose Rhymes: A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles. With 350 Illustrations. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [ca. 1910]

The Jessie Wilcox Smith Mother Goose: A Careful and Full Selection of the Rhymes. Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1912.

Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, England: William Heinemann, 1913.

Nursery Rhymes. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1913. [On linen]

The Most Popular Mother Goose Songs. Illustrated by Mabel B. Hill. New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge Inc., 1915.

Mother Goose: Volland Popular Edition. Rearranged and Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Illustrated by Fredrick Richardson. Chicago, IL: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1915.

Garis, Howard R. Uncle Wiggley and Mother Goose: Complete in Two Parts. Fifty-two Stories One For Each Week In The Year. Illustrated by Edward Bloomfield. New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., 1916.

Potter, Beatrix. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. London: Fredrick Warne, first published 1917.

The Little Mother Goose, With Numerous Illustrations in Full Color and Black and White. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [c1918].

Potter, Beatrix. Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes. New York: Fredrick Warne and Co. , 1922.

Fraser, Claud Lovat. Nursery Rhymes: With Pictures by C. Lovat Fraser. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1922?]

Favorite Rhymes of Mother Goose. Illustrated by M. L. Kirk. New York: Cupples & Leon Co., 1923.

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Edited by L. Edna Walter; Illustrated by Charles Folkard. New York, Macmillan, 1924.

Mother Goose Rhymes [Censored]. New York: Kendall Banning, 1926.

Brooke, L. Leslie. A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book: Number Two. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. nd.

The Brimful Book: A Collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, Animal Stories. Edited by Watty Piper. Illustrated by Eulaie, C. M. Burd, G.D. Hauman. New York: Platt & Munk, 1927.

Pogány, Willy. Willy Pogány's Mother Goose. New York: T. Nelson & Sons, [c1928].

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Arranged by Logan Marshall. Illustrations by Julia Greene. Chicago, IL: John C. Winston Co., 1928.

Hand-painted pewter moveable figurines of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Berta and Elmer Hader's Picture Book of Mother Goose. Illustrated by Berta and Elmer Hader. New York: Coward-McCann, 1930.

The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Lawson Wood. London, England: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., [ca. 1930]

Starrett, Vincent. All About Mother Goose. Boston, MA: The Apellicon Press, 1930.

Welsh, Charles, compiler. Rhymes from Mother Goose. Revised Edition. New York: D. C. Heath and Co., 1930. [Heath Supplementary Readers]

Hill, C.F. The Truth About Old King Cole: And Other Very Natural Histories. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1931. [Originally published in 1910, reprinted with alterations and additions in 1931]

The Land of Nursery Rhyme. As seen by Alice Daglish and Ernest Rhys; with a map and pictures drawn by Charles Folkard. New York: Dutton, 1932.

Mother Goose: Her Own Book. Illustrated by Mary Royt. Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1932.

Mother Goose. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, 1932.

Mother Goose. Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1934.

Mother Goose. Ackron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1934. Number 992.

Mother Goose In Washington: A Story of Old King Dole and His Humpty Dumpty Court. New York: The Telegraph Press, 1936.

The Gay Mother Goose. Illustrated by Françoise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

Piper, Watty. The Brimful book: A Collection of Mother Goose Rhymes. Animal Stories. A B C. Edited by Watty Piper; Illustrated by Eulalie, C.M. Burd [and] G. & D. Haumann. New York: The Platt and Munk Co., [c1939]

Wood, Ray. The American Mother Goose. Foreword by John A. Lomax. Illustrated by Ed. Hargis. New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Co., 1940.

Mother Goose: A Unique Version. With Animated Illustrations. By Julian Wehr. New York: Grosset and Dunlap Inc., 1942.

The Tall Book of Mother Goose. Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. New York: Harper Brothers, 1942.

Mother Goose: A Comprehensive Collection of the Rhymes. Made by William Rose Benet; Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. New York: Heritage Press, 1943. [Originally published in 1936]

Mother Goose: Seventy-seven Verses with Pictures. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1944.

Sing Mother Goose. Music by Opal Wheeler; Illustrated by Majorie Torrey. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1945.

The Mother Goose Book. Illustrated by Sonia Roetter. Mount Vernon, New York: Pauper Press, 1946.

Ross, Patricia Fent. The Hungry Moon: Mexican Nursery Tales. Illustrated by Carlos Merida. New York: Knopf, 1946.

The Margaret Tarrant Nursery Rhyme Book. New York: E. P. Dutton, [1947].

Mother Goose. Illustrated by Esther Friend. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally and Co., 1947.

Baby's Own Mother Goose. Illustrated by Vivienne Blake. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, c1949.

Walt Disney's Mother Goose. Adapted by Al Dempster. Illustrated by Walt Disney Studio. Racine, WI: Golden Books/Weston Publishing, 1949.

The Little Kittens' Nursery Rhymes. Photos by Harry Whittier Frees. Chicago, IL. Rand McNally and Co., 1951.

Opie, Iona Archibald. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Iona and Peter Opie. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951.

Hey Diddle Diddle. Illustrated by Geraldine Clyne. Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, 1953. [pop-up]

Mary's Lamb. Illustrated by Geraldine Clyne. Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, 1953. [pop-up]

Old King Cole. Illustrated by Geraldine Clyne. Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, 1953. [pop-up]

DeAngeli, Marguerite. Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, c1954.

Hand-painted ceramic china figurine of the the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe from Royal Doulton, UK

Norrie, Thelma V. Mother Goose in Calypso-Land: Rhymes and illustrations. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: [Guardian Commercial Printery], 1955.

Mother Goose. Illustrated by Anne Sellers Leaf. Chicago IL: Rand McNally, 1958.

Winsor, Fredrick. The Space Child's Mother Goose. Illustrated by Marian Parry. New York: Simon Schuster, 1958.

Brooke, L. Leslie. A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book: Number One. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England; New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [1959]. [Cover title: Leslie Brooke's A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book Number One. Children's Books. Originally published 1922.]

Brooke, L. Leslie. A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book: Number Two. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England; New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, [1959?]. [Cover title: Leslie Brooke's A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book Number Two. Children's Books. Originally published 1922.]

De Angeli's, Marguerite. A Pocket Full of Posies: A Merry Mother Goose. Garden City New York: Double Day, 1961.

Mother Goose of Boston: Hear What Ma'am Goose Says. Scotia, NY: Americana Review, 1961. [Reprint in part of the 1833 edition in Boston of Monroe and Francis, The Only True Mother Goose]

The Real Mother Goose. Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Co., 1962. [Reprint of the 1916 edition]

Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Philip Reed. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

Old Mother Goose. Adapted by Frank Haines. Illustrated by Fredrick Richardson. New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1963.

Opie, Iona Archibald. The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes. Gathered by Iona and Peter Opie; with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex] Baltimore: Penguin Books, [1963].

Brian Wildsmith's Mother Goose, A Collection of Nursery Rhymes. New York: F. Watts, 1965, cl964.

Raymond Briggs. Fee Fi Fo Fum: A Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1964.

A Family Book of Nursery Rhymes. Selected by Iona and Peter Opie. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. [Originally published by Penguin Books as the Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes.]

Mother Goose in French = Poésies de la vraie Mére Oie. Translations by Hugh Latham; Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. New York: Crowell, c1964. [In French.]

Montgomerie, Norah. A Book of Scottish Nursery Rhymes. Collected and edited by Norah & William Montgomerie; Illustrated by T. Ritchie and N. Montgomerie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Samuels, Ruth. Chanukah Mother Goose Rhymes. Illustrations by Eve Penzer. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1965.

The Mother Goose Treasury. Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. New York: Coward-McCann, [1966].

Addams, Charles. The Chas. Addams Mother Goose. New York: Windmill Books, 1967.

London Bridge Is Falling Down! Illustrated by Peter Spier. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967.

To Market! To Market! Illustrated by Peter Spier. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967.

The Prancing Pony; Nursery Rhymes from Japan. Adapted into English verse for children by Charlotte B. DeForest; with kusa-e illustrations by Keiko Hida. [1st ed.] New York: WalkerWeatherhill, [1968] ["First published in Japan in 1967"]

Wyndman, Robert Utley. Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes. Ju Tzu Ko Tu. Selected and edited by Robert Wyndham; Illustrated by Ed Young. Cleveland, OH: World, [1968]

Baby's Own Mother Goose. Illustrated by Vivienne Blake. Chicago, IL: Rand Mc Nally, 1969.

Mother Gooses's Melodies: Facsimile Edition of the Monroe and Francis "copy right 1833" version. With Introduction and Bibliographic Note by E. F. Bleiler. New York: Dover, 1970.

Walt Disney's Mother Goose. Illustrations by Walt Disney Studio. Racine, WI. Golden Press, 1970.

The Hildebrandt Mother Goose. New York: Platt & Munk, 1972.

Richard Scarry's Mother Goose. Racine, WI: Western Publishing, 1972. [A Golden Book.]

The Little Book of Nursery Rhymes. Racine, WI: Whitman Book, 1973.

Mother Goose. Illus. by Aurelius Battaglia. New York: Random House, 1973.

Mother (Goose) in Hieroglyphics. New York: Dover, 1973. [This Dover edition, first published in 1973, is an unabridged facsimile republication of the edition entered in 1849 in the Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania By George S. Appleton, and published by Brown and Taggard in Boston about 1860. The cover but not the title page of the original book bears the spelling "Hieroglyphicks." E. F. Bleiler has written a Postscript on Hieroglyphics and Mother Goose especially for the Dover edition.]

Blegvad, Lenore. Mittens for Kittens and Other Rhymes About Cats. Chosen by Lenore Blegvad; Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. New York: Atheneum, 1974.

Humpty Dumpty. Illustrated by Rodney Peppè. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Puffin, 1974.

Mother Goose In The City. Illustrated by Dora Leder. Racine, WI: Golden Press, 1974.

Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Anthony Rao. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1974. [Also published earlier as the Highlight's Book of Nursery Rhymes. Columbus, OH: Highlights for Children, nd. ]

Raskin, Ellen. Moose, Goose, and Little Nobody. Illustrated by Ellen Raskin. New York: Parents Magazine, 1974.

Hefter, Richard, Ed. The Strawberry Mother Goose. Illustrated by Lawrence DiFiori. New York: Larousse and Co., 1975.

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Nicola Bayley's Book of Nursery Rhymes. New York: Knopf, 1975.

Granfa' Grig Had a Pig: And Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose. Compiled and Illustrated by Wallace Tripp. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1976.

The Mother Goose Book. Illustrated by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen. New York: Random House, 1976.

Mother Goose ABC. Illustrated by Kinuko Craft. New York: Platt & Munk, 1977.

Tarrant, Margaret. Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978.

"What Do You Feed Your Donkey On?" Rhymes from a Belfast Childhood. Collected by Colette O'Hare; Illustrated by Jenny Rodwell. London, England: Collins, 1978.

Brandreth, Gyles. The Story of Humpty Dumpty. Illustrated by Sarah Silcock. Ealing London: Carousel Books, 1979.

James Marshall's Mother Goose. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979.

Mayer, Mercer. Little Monster's Mother Goose. New York: Golden Press, 1979.

Mother Goose If Wishes Were Horses and Other Rhymes. Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979.

Moorat, Joseph. Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs. Arranged by Joseph Moorat & pictured by Paul Woodroffe. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Thames & Hudson, [c1980] [Reprint of the 1912 edition]

My First Mother Goose Book. Illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia. New York: Golden Press; Racine, WI: Western Pub. Co., 1980.

My Jesus Pocketbook of Nursery Rhymes. Poetry Cynthia Harvey Fletcher. Illustrated Erin Sherman. Decatur, GA: Stirrup Associates, 1980.

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog. Illustrated by Tomie De Paola. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.

A Merry-Mouse Book of Nursery Rhymes. [Illustrated and compiled by] Priscilla Hillman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, c1981.

My Little Mother Goose. Illustrated by Amye Rosenberg. New York: Golden Press, 1981.

Hill, Eric. Nursery Rhyme: Peek-a-Book. Los Angeles, CA: PriceSternSloan, 1982.

The Mother Goose Book. Illustrated by Nina Barbaresi. Racine, WI: Western Publishing, 1982.

The Parrot in the Garret: And Other Rhymes About Dwellings. Chosen by Lenore Blegvad; Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

Blake, Quentin. Quentin Blake's Nursery Rhyme Book. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Decker, Marjorie Ainsborough. Life in Christian Mother Goose Land. Illustrated by Theanna Sparr, Colleen Murphy Scott, vol. 3. Grand Junction, CO: Decker Press, 1983.

Lee, Dennis. Jelly Belly: Original Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Juan Wijngaard. London, England: Blackie, 1983.

Marshak, Samuil. The Merry Starlings. by Samuil Marshak and David Harms; Translated from the Russian by Dorian Rottenberg; Illustrated by Arieh Zeldich. New York: Harper & Row, 1983, c1974.

Mother Goose. New York: Merrimack Publishing, 1983. [Facsimile of the 1934 edition.]

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. New York: Merrimack Publishing, 1983. [Reproduction.]

Ormerod, Jan. Rhymes Around the Day. Chosen by Pat Thomson. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1983.

Patz, Nancy. Moses Supposes His Toeses Are Roses And 7 Other Silly Old Rhymes. Retold and Illustrated by Nancy Patz. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983.

Stobbs, William. The House That Jack Built. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Little Treasury of Mother Goose In Six Delightful Volumes. Illustrated by Fredrick Richardson from the Original Volland Edition. New York: Arlington House, 1984.

Mother Goose: The Original Volland Edition. Arranged and Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Illustrated by Fredrick Richardson. New York: Derrydale Books, 1984. [facsimile of the 1915 edition]

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Allen Atkinson. New York: Knopf, 1984.

Potter, Beatrix. Beatrix Potter's Nursery Rhyme Book. London, England: Frederick Warne, 1984.

The Bells of London: With a Story in Pictures. Illustrated by Ashley Wolff. New York: Dodd, Mead; Toronto, Canada: Distributed in Canada by McClelland and Stewart, c1985.

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