![HODGSON & CO., publisher. The Adventures of Mother Goose. London: printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, No. 10, Newgate-Street, n.d. [not issued before 1822, impression not before 1820 (watermark-date)]. Sixpence.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01740_0054_000(011800).jpg?w=1)
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HODGSON & CO., publisher. The Adventures of Mother Goose. London: printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, No. 10, Newgate-Street, n.d. [not issued before 1822, impression not before 1820 (watermark-date)]. Sixpence.
24o (100 x 90 mm). Etched throughout: apparently printed from a single copperplate on one side of a half-sheet. Frontispiece, title-vignette, 10 three-quarter-page illustrations (each captioned with a quatrain), all colored by a contemporary hand (probably at the publisher's). Original tan wrappers, letterpress title on front and back cover (as transcribed above); quarter roan folding case.
A printing and publishing business associated with a Thomas Hodgson was set up at 43 King Street about 1820, and this firm, Hodgson & Co., moved to 10 Newgate Street in 1822 only to be taken over by William Cole in 1825. See Alderson & Oyens, pp.175-78.
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A printing and publishing business associated with a Thomas Hodgson was set up at 43 King Street about 1820, and this firm, Hodgson & Co., moved to 10 Newgate Street in 1822 only to be taken over by William Cole in 1825. See Alderson & Oyens, pp.175-78.