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 Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, Jingles and Tales
"One exhaustive volume" that includes "Nursery Rhymes, 
Tales, and Jingles," (James
Burn, 1844) "Popular Nursery Tales," (uncertain) and
"Nursery Rhymes and Tales" (James Orchard Halliwell, 
1849) and "many hundreds 
of illustrations."

c. 1840s (illustrations)
c. 1890 edition
Frederick Warne and Co.

Francis & Co.'s Little Library:
For Young Persons of Various Ages

 The Ugly Duck
and other Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
with illustrations
 
(illustrator unknown)

c. of stories variable 
(1837, 1843, etc.)
c. 1856 illustrations
C. S Francis & Co.


 

Francis & Co.'s Little Library:
For Young Persons of Various Ages

 A Christmas Greeting
 13 New Stories
from the Danish
by Hans Christian Andersen
(illustrator unknown)

c. of stories variable 
(1845, 1847 etc.)
c. 1858 illustrations
C. S Francis & Co.


 

 Child Life in Prose
Edited by 
John Greenleaf Whittier
"Illustrated"
(illustrator Unknown)
Authors include Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, Celia Thaxter,
Charles Dickens, John G. 
Whittier, Harriet Beecher
 Stowe,  Hans Christian
 Andersen, And Grimm

c. 1874
James R. Osgood and Co.

 

 

Mother Goose Melodies  
Complete
"
Illustrated with Full-Page
 Color Plates and Numerous Pictures in Black and White"

c. 1890
The Platt & Peck Co.

 



Coming Soon 
Little Jack Rabbits
 Big Blue Book 
by David Cory

c. 1924

 

 

 Little Pictures 
of Japan
Translated by 
Olive Beaupre Miller
Pictures by Katharine Sturges

c. 1925
The Book House for Children
29th printing, 1952

 

 Tales Told 
in Holland
Translated by 
Olive Beaupre Miller
Illustrated by 
Maud and Miska Petersham

c. 1926
The Book House for Children
29th printing, 1952

 

 Nursery Friends 
From France
Translated by 
Olive Beaupre Miller
Illustrated by 
Maud and Miska Petersham

c. 1927
The Book House for Children
29th printing, 1952

 





Eight Fairy Tales
edited by Watty Piper
Verses by Kate Cox Goddard
Illustrated by Eulalie

c. 1934, 1938
Platt & Munk Co., Inc.


 

 

Coming Soon
 My Book House 
in the Nursery
Edited by 
Olive Beaupre Miller
Illustrators include Kate Greenaway, Mariel Wilhoite, and the Hollings

c. 1937
Nelson Doubleday

 

The Gateway to
Storyland
Edited by Watty Piper
Pictures by Eulalie

c. 1925-1952
The Platt & Munk Co., Inc.

 

 

 

The Jungle Books
Volume One
by Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by
 Aldren Watson

c. 1894(text)
C. 1948 (illust.)

 

 

 

  The Jungle Books
Volume Two
by Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by
 Aldren Watson

c. 1894 (text)
c. 1948 (illust.)

 

 

 

Better Homes
and Garden's
Storybook
Stories and Poems selected
by Betty O'Connor
Illustrators include 
Edward Lear, Randolph 
Caldecott, Gustaf Tengren

c. 1950
Meredith Publishing Co.

 

Coming Soon
  More Rupert Adventures
The Daily Express Annual

c. 1952
London Express Newspaper 
(Published every morning in
 the Daily Express)

 

 

Coming Soon
 Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Illustrated 
by Leonard Weisgard

c. 1954
Nelson Doubleday

 

 

The Golden Book
of Stories
by Lillian Moore
Pictures by
Corinne Malvern

c. 1955
Simon and Schuster

 

 

Best in 
Children's Books #1
Authors include 
Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
 and Marjorie Flack
Illustrators include 
Barbara Cooney,
Leonard Weisgard 
and Ezra Jack Keats

c. 1957
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

 

Best in 
Children's Books #2
Authors include 
Maud and Miska Petersham
and Joseph Jacobs
Illustrators include 
Tony Palazzo,
 Feodor Rojankowsky, 
and Leonard Kessler

 c. 1957
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

 

Best in 
Children's Books #8
Authors include Jonathan Swift
 and Thornton Burgess
Illustrators include 
Lawrence Beall Smith,
Leonard Weisgard and 
Herman B. Vestal

c. 1957
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

 

Best in 
Children's Books #10
Authors include 
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 
and and Margery Clark
Illustrators Include 
Janina Domanska,
 Richard Scarry 
and Ezra Jack Keats 

c. 1958
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.


Best in 
Children's Books #13

Authors include 
Laura Bannon
 and Rachel Field
Illustrators include 
Marguerite D'Angeli 
and Paul Galdone

c. 1958
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

 

Best in 
Children's Books #14

Authors include Margery Flack
 and Smith Burnham
Illustrators include 
Feodor Rojankovsky, Leonard 
Weisgard and Janina Domanska

c. 1958
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

 

Best in 
Children's Books #15

Authors include Rudyard Kipling
and Ellis Credle
Illustrators include Don Freeman,
Barbara Cooney and Andy Warhol

c. 1958
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.


Best in 
Children's Books #30

Authors include Laura Bannon,
 and Ethel and Leonard Kessler 
Illustrators include Adrienne Adams,
 Paul Galdone, and Peter Spier

c. 1958
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.


Best in 
Children's Books #33

Authors include Roger Duvoisin 
and Herman and Nina Schneider
Illustrators include 
Adrienne Adams, Andy 
Warhol, and Ray Houlihan

c. 1958
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

 

Thornton W. Burgess
Bedtime Stories
Illustrated by
Carl and Mary Hauge

c. 1959
Grosset & Dunlap

 

Coming Soon
My Fern Hollow Bedtime Book
by John Patience

c. 1986
Peter Haddock, Ltd

 

 

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