f the Development of the American Story-Book_.
Halsey, Rosalie V. Boston, C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1911. 244
pp.
1785-1788. _Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Writer, and Collector.
Nichols, Charles L_. A paper read April 12, 1911, before the
Club of Odd Volumes.... Boston. Printed for the Club of Odd
Volumes, 1912. 144 pp. List of juveniles 1787-88: pp.
132-33.
1785. _Mother Goose_. The original Mother Goose's melody, as
first issued by John Newbery, of London, about A.D. 1760.
Reproduced in facsimile from the edition as reprinted by
Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., A.D. 1785 (about) ...
Albany, J. Munsell's Sons, 1889. 28 pp.
1787. _Banbury Chap-Books and Nursery Toy-Book Literature_
(of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) ...
Pearson, Edwin. With very much that is interesting and
valuable appertaining to the early typography of children's
books relating to Great Britain and America.... London, A.
Reader, 1890: 116 pp. Impressions from wood-cut blocks by T.
and J. Bewick, Cruikshank, Craig, Lee, Austin, and others.
1789. _The Olden Time Series_. Gleanings chiefly from old
newspapers of Boston and Salem, Mass. Brooks, Henry M.,
_comp_. Boston, Ticknor & Co., 1886. 6 vols. _The Books that
Children Read in 1798_ ... by T.C. Cushing: vol. 6, pp.
62-63.
1800-1825. Goodrich, S.G. _Recollections of a Lifetime_.
New York, Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. 2 vols. Children's
books (1800-1825): vol. 1, pp. 164-74.
1686. _The History of Tom Thumb_. John Dunton, Boston.
1728. _Chap-Books_. Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia.
1730. _Small Histories_. Andrew Bradford, Philadelphia.
These included _Tom Thumb_, _Tom Hickathrift_, and _Dick
Whittington_.
1744. _The Child's New Plaything_. Draper & Edwards, Boston.
Reprint. Contained alphabet in rhyme, proverbs, fables, and
stories: _St. George and the Dragon_; _Fortunatus_; _Guy of
Warwick_; _Brother and Sister_; _Reynard the Fox_; and _The
Wolf and the Kids_.
1750. John Newbery's books. Advertised in Philadelphia
_Gazette_. The _Pretty Book for Children_ probably included
_Cinderella_, _Tom Thumb_, etc.
1760. All juvenile publications for sale in England.
Imported and sold by Hugh Gaine, New York.
1766. _Children's books_. Imported and sold by
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