Full title: "The original Mother Goose's Melody, as issued by John Newbery, of London, c. 1760; Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., c. 1785, and Munroe & Francis, of Boston, c. 1825. Reproduced in facsimile, from the first Worcester edition, with introductory notes by William H. Whitmore. To which are added the Fairy Tales of Mother Goose, first collected by Perrault in 1696, reprinted from the original translation in English, by R. Samber in 1729." 4to, engraved frontispiece portrait of Perrault (by Edelinck, 1694) in photogravure by A.W. Elson & Co of Boston, guard sheet, facs. of text, woodcuts and title page. First edition. Textual and bibliographical analysis of the various editions and variants.