(Mother Goose) MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. New York: McLoughlin Bro's, (1894). Folio - 12-1/8" x 9-7/8". Color pictorial glazed card wrappers with rubbing and wear to the corners, edges and spine, creasing to the front cover and soiling to the back cover; the tail of spine with a 3-3/4" split and three pinprick holes starting on the front wrapper and continuing through the book where evidently a no-longer-existent sewn repair of the split was located for what even considering the thoroughly described condition issues remains a nice copy of this large format chromolithograph book. [16] pp. including wrappers. The book contains fourteen different nursery rhymes including Little Bo-Peep, Humpty-Dumpty, Jack and Jill and Old King Cole. The nursery rhymes are beautifully illustrated with fourteen pages of sumptuous color drawings; minor finger marks to a few pages. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD -. Only four copies located on OCLC/WorldCat. RARE # 000692