Bibliographical Note
The Babees Book—Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, M.A. Published for the Early English Text Society. London, Trübner, 1868.
In the foreword, note the following:
Education in early England:
1. In Nobles’ Houses; 2. At Home and at Private Tutors’; 3. At English Universities; 4. At Foreign Universities; 5. At Monastic and Cathedral Schools; 6. At Grammar Schools. Vide the several other prefaces.
This collection contains:
1. The Babees Book, or a ‘Lytyl Reporte’ of How Young People Should Behave (circa 1475 A.D.); 2. The A B C of Aristotle (1430 A.D.); 3. The Book of Curteisie That is Clepid Stans Puer ad Mensam (1430 A.D.); 4. The boke of Nurture, or Schoole of good maners: For Men, Servants, and children (1577); 5. The Schoole of Vertue, and booke of good Nourture for chyldren and youth to learne theyr dutie by (1557).
Vide Vol. iv, Percy Society, London, 1841:1. The Boke of Curtasye, ed. J. O. Halliwell. 2. Specimens of Old Christmas Carols, ed. T. Wright. 3. The Nursery Rhymes of England, ed. J. O. Halliwell, 1842: a. Historical; b. Tales; c. Jingles; d. Riddles; e. Proverbs; f. Lullabies; g. Charms; h. Games; i. Literal; j. Paradoxes; k. Scholastic; l. Customs; m. Songs; n. Fragments.
Vide Vol. xxix, Percy Society, London, 1849. Notices of Fugitive Tracts and Chap-books printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, etc., ed. J. O. Halliwell.
Ashton, John—Chap-books of the 18th Century.
Ashton, John—Social Life in the Time of Queen Anne.
Bergengren, R.—Boswell’s Chap-books and Others. Lamp, 28:39–44 (Feb., 1904).
Chambers, W.—Historical Sketch of Popular Literature and Its Influence on Society, 1863.
Cunningham, R. H.—Amusing Prose Chap-books. Glasgow, 1889.
Faxon, Frederick Winthrop—A Bibliography of the Modern Chap-books and their Imitators (Bulletin of Bibl. Pamphl. No. 11), Boston Book Co., 1903. [A “freak” movement, beginning with the publication of Chap-book, at Cambridge, May 15, 1894.]
Ferguson, Chancellor—On the Chap-books in the Bibliotheca Jacksoniana in Tullie House, Carlisle. Archaeolog. Jour., 52:292 (1895).
Fraser, John—Scottish Chap-books. (2 pts.) New York, Hinton, 1873.
Gerring, Charles—Notes on Printers and Booksellers, with a Chapter on Chap-books. London, 1900.
Halliwell, James Orchard—A Catalogue of Chap-books, Garlands, and Popular Histories in the Possession of Halliwell. London, 1849.
Harvard College Library—Catalogue of English and American Chap-books and Broadside Ballads in 1905 (Bibl. contrib. No. 56).
Nisard, Marie Léonard Charles—Histoire des Livres Populaires ou de la Littérature du Colportage, depuis l’origine de l’imprimerie jusqu’ à l’établissement de la Commission d’examen des livres du Colportage (30 Nov., 1852) [2 vols.]. Paris, Dentu, 1864.
Pearson, Edwin—Banbury Chap-books and Nursery Toy Book Literature of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. London, 1890.
Pyle, Howard—Chap-book Heroes. Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 81:123 (1890).
Sieveking, S. Giberne—The Mediæval Chap-book as an Educational Factor in the Past. The Reliquary and Illus. Archaeolog., 9:241 (1903).
The student is referred to the following invaluable reference for matter relating to New England literature: Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, Conn. (5 pts.) Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Co., 1878–97. Not completed. Comprising a list of Books printed at Cambridge and Boston, 1640–1709.
Pt. I.—The Bay Psalm Book, No. 847; Almanacs, 1646–1707; The Mathers, Special Chapter of References.
Pt. III.—Bibles, 146; Catechisms and Primers, New England Primer, 158; Music and Psalmody, 163; Psalms and Hymns, 172.
Pt. IV.—Continuation of Psalms and Hymns; Bibl. Ref. to Denominational Churches, Law, Government, Political Economy, Sciences, etc.; Popular Literature: Jest Books, Anecdotes, 131; Chap-books, 135; Books for Children, 139; Mother Goose, 140; Primers and Catechisms, 141; Educational, 143; Almanacs, 163; Theology, 177.
Pt. V.—Newspapers and Periodicals, 137.
Ford, Paul Leicester—The New England Primer (ed.). N. Y., Dodd, Mead, 1897. (Edition limited.) [Vide excellent bibliography.]
The New England Primer. Bookman, 4:122–131 (Oct., 1896).
Johnson, Clifton—The New England Primer. New England Mag., n.s. 28:323. (May, 1903.) [Some essential data, but written superficially.]
Marble, Annie Russell—Early New England Almanacs. New England Mag., n.s. 19:548. (Jan., 1899.) [Vide also Griswold’s Curiosities of American Literature; Tyler’s History of American Literature; Thomas’s History of Printing. A collection of Almanacs is owned by the Am. Antiq. Soc., Worcester, Mass.]
Collin de Plancy—Memories of Perrault.
Dillaye, Frédéric—Les Contes de Perrault (ed.). Paris, 1880.
Lang, Andrew—Perrault’s Popular Tales; edited from the original editions, with an introduction by. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1888. [A concise and agreeable introduction to the study of folk-lore in general, and of a few noted tales in particular.]
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales—Madame D’Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, etc. Little, Brown, $1.00.
Old French Fairy Tales—C. Perrault, Madame D’Aulnoy. Little, Brown, $1.00.
D’Anois, Countess—Fairy Tales, Translated from the French of. (2 vols.) London, 1817.
D’Aulnoy, Comtesse—Mémoires de la. [Vide Collection pour les jeunes filles.]
Hale, Edward Everett—Reprint of the Monroe and Francis Mother Goose.
Green, P. B.—History of Nursery Rhymes. London, 1899.
Headland, J. T.—Chinese Mother Goose. Chicago, 1900.
Halliwell, J. O.—Nursery Rhymes of England; collected principally from oral tradition. London, 1842. [The Percy Society, Early English Poetry.]
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. A Sequel to Nursery Rhymes. London, 1849.
Ritson, Joseph—Gammer Gurton’s Garland; or, The Nursery Parnassus. London, 1810; reprint 1866.
Welsh, Charles—An Appeal for Nursery Rhymes and Jingles. Dial (Chicago), 27:230 (1 Oct., 1899).
Father of Children’s Books—Current Literature, 27:110.
Welsh, Charles—A Bookseller of the Last Century. Griffith, Farren & Co. London.
Batchelder, F. R.—Patriot Printer. New England Mag., n.s. 25:284 (N. ‘01).
Evans, Charles—American Bibliography. A Chronological Dictionary of all Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America. From the genesis of Printing in 1639 Down to and Including the Year 1820. With Bibliographical and Biographical Notes. Privately Printed for the Author by the Blakely Press, Chicago. Anno Domini MDCCCCIII. Thus far issued: Vol. I. 1639–1729; Vol. II. 1730–1750; Vol. III. 1751–1764.
Livingston, L. S.—American Publisher of a Hundred Years Ago. Bookman, 11:530 (Aug., ’00).
Nichols, Charles L.—Some Notes on Isaiah Thomas and his Worcester Imprints. Am. Antiq. Soc., 1899–1900, n.s., 13:429.
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin—Memoir of Isaiah Thomas. By his Grandson. Boston, 1874.
Hewins, Caroline M.—The History of Children’s Books. Atlantic, 61:112 (Jan., 1888).
Welsh, Charles.—The Early History of Children’s Books in New England. New England Mag., n.s. 20:147–60 (April, 1899).
Yonge, Charlotte M.—Children’s Literature of the Last Century. Liv. Age, 102:373 (Aug. 7, 1869); 612 (Sept. 4, 1869); 103:96 (Oct. 9, 1869).