Murby's Kindergarten Songs. The Merry-Go-Round: A Collection of Rhymes, Jingles, and Songs, for the Amusement of the Little Ones., Eighth Edition, with Additions and Improvements

London: Thomas Murby, 3, Ludgate Circus Buildings, 1880. Cloth. Very good. Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works Frome and London.
Cover title: The Merry-Go-Round or Rhymes, Jingles & Songs, Thomas Murby.

24mo oblong (5 ½" x 7 ¼"); 62pp; gilt-stamped lettering on green cloth over board, blind-stamped decorative borders; pale yellow endpapers; musical scores; rubbing to boards, paper over hinges splitting but binding holding tight, lightly shaken; very good minus. Only 2 located in OCLC, the Sixth edition and Eighth edition, both at the British Library Reference Collections. Sixty songs, musical scores with words, were selected for early childhood instruction for the ages of 3-7 years. Many of the included songs are nursery rhymes familiar to this age group, even in the 21st century. In the preface, the author argues that children "cannot attain to any healthy moral development if they are fed upon facts alone," and teaching children nursery rhymes encourages imagination.