[Mother Goose's Melody. London: John Marshall, ca. 1805]. 12° (120 x 117mm). Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations and vignettes (lacking all before p. 11 and all after p. 40, occasional soiling, a few leaves torn, one crudely repaired with stitching), modern card wrappers. -- and 4 others including Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, the Nursery Parnassus (1810), The Dandy's Perambulations (1819) and Marshall's First Lessons for Children, in words of three and four letters (1827). (5)

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[Mother Goose's Melody. London: John Marshall, ca. 1805]. 12° (120 x 117mm). Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations and vignettes (lacking all before p. 11 and all after p. 40, occasional soiling, a few leaves torn, one crudely repaired with stitching), modern card wrappers. -- and 4 others including Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, the Nursery Parnassus (1810), The Dandy's Perambulations (1819) and Marshall's First Lessons for Children, in words of three and four letters (1827). (5)

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No complete copy of the first named work has been traced. The fragment probably comes from an edition that lies between the eighteenth century printings and the larger format editions which Marshall published after 1810.

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