Mother Goose Melodies Toybooks

[ New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914 [. Original stiff paper wrappers, each with a color reproduction of a different plate from The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose. With gilt border and lettering. Rear cover printed with an advertisement for Colgate talcum powder. 10 booklets, 5 inches by 3 inches. 8 pp. each. . With 4 black-and-white illustrations in each booklet to accompany the rhymes. Some creasing to pages and wrappers and some toning throughout the set. Open tear at fore-edge of page 3 in the Little Miss Muffet booklet (with no text or images affected). Overall a very good, clean, and attractive set. The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose was first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1914. There are no previous editions of these Toybooks, which were published in a set of twelve. The titles included here are Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Tuffet; Rain, Rain Go Away; Little Bo-peep; Mary, Mary Quite Contrary; Ring a-round a Rosie; See Saw, Margery Daw; Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt Thou Be Mine?; One Foot Up, the other Foot Down; Hush-a-bye-Baby On the Tree Top; and Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill. The missing title is There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.