Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes Hardcover VTG 1993... Walter Jerrold

**Blurred markings on back cover and very light markings on front cover, ink dot on top edge of book - see last photos. Otherwise, inside of book looks new.”** Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Everyman's library Children's Classics Illustrations by Robinson, Charles “Doctor Foster went to Glo’ster, In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle, And never went there again.” A bumper crop of nursery rhymes for the delight of the very young. In his Introduction, Jerrold explains how his selection was based on earlier collections made by John Newbery, Joseph Ritson and James Orchard Halliwell. He goes on to add, “ Students divide our rhymes into narrative pieces, historical folk-lore, game rhymes, counting-out rhymes, jingles, fragments, etcetera, but for the children for whom and by whom they are remembered, and for whom they are here collected and pictured anew, they are just — Nursery Rhymes.”