The annotated Mother Goose : nursery rhymes old and new /
Arranged and explained by William S. Baring-Gould & Ceil Baring-Gould; illustrated by Walter Crane, et. al.
- [1st ed.]
- New York, C. N. Potter [c1962]
- 350 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 333-340.
All about "Mother Goose" -- Pretty songs of Tommy Thumb -- Melody of twenty-five others -- Simple Simon and Nancy Cock -- Gammer Gurton's garland -- Tom Tit-The Piper's son-and some Christmas boxes -- Old Mother Hubbard and other songs for the nursery -- More catches and ditties and jingles and chimes -- Some that came later that might have come before -- Young Father Goose -- Mother Goose's almanack -- Mother Goose's charms, auguries, and nature lore -- Mother Goose's lullabies and game songs -- Mother Goose's riddles and tongue twisters -- Mother Goose's wise sayings -- Nineteenth-Century Bouquet -- Modern old Mother Goose -- Mother Goose tomorrow.