Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1930. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cooke, Edna. First thus. Lacks jacket. All plates included. Boards lightly soiled, light stain to top corner of frontispiece and title page, ink name on front endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. 384 pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles, red, white, and gold design on front board. Color frontispiece and plates, black-and-white illustrations on endpapers and throughout text, all by Edna Cooke. Includes Humpty Dumpty, The Fox and the Farmer, Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin and many more. "The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". A Christmas pantomime called "Mother Goose" is often performed in the United Kingdom. The so-called "Mother Goose" rhymes and stories have formed the basis for many classic British pantomimes. Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose.