The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Monroe & Francis) 1833 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Monroe & Francis) 1833, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Monroe & Francis) 1833
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*The Only True Mother Goose*, issued by the Boston firm Monroe & Francis in 1833, is a reminder of how the nursery rhymes first printed in England reached American children. Mother Goose collections had been reprinted on both sides of the Atlantic since the eighteenth century, and by the 1830s Boston publishers were turning out inexpensive illustrated editions for the home and schoolroom. The record does not say which page or plate this image comes from, so it is worth looking closely at the layout and woodcut style for clues to the book's design.
| Medium | 1 item. |
|---|---|
| Genre | old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Nursery rhymes." |
| Notes | 1833 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,064 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125975 |
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