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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book
''Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book'' is the first anthology of English-language nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744. It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children. In 2013 a facsimile edition with an introduction by Andrea Immel and Brian Alderson was published by the Cotsen Occasional Press.
==Publication==
With the full title: ''Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll.'' () ''II'', this was a sequel to the now lost Tommy Thumb's Song Book, published in London by Mary Cooper in 1744. For many years, it was thought that there was only a single copy in existence, now in the British Library,〔''British Library'', http://entrypoint.bl.uk/Results.aspx?query=tommy+thumb%27s+pretty+song+book&Web=True&OG=True&ILS=True&BLD=True&imageField.x=50&imageField.y=13, retrieved 14 November 2009.〕 but in 2001 another copy appeared and was sold for £45,000.〔"News in Brief", 13 December 2001, ''Telegraph.co.uk'', http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1365141/News-in-brief.html, retrieved 14 November 09.〕 An earlier collection, ''Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies,'' was supposedly published in Boston in 1719, but the location has been disputed,〔"MOTHER GOOSE.; Longevity of the Boston Myth – The Facts of History in this Matter", ''New York Times'', http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D00E1DD1730E132A25757C0A9649C94689ED7CF, retrieved 14 November 2009.〕 and no record of any such work exists. Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby, quotes or alludes to some half-dozen or so nursery rhymes. As a result, this is the oldest printed collection of English nursery rhymes that is available.〔H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, ''The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature'' (Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 533–4.〕 The rhymes and illustrations were printed from copper plates, the text being stamped with punches into the lates, a technique borrowed from map and music printing. It is 3x1 inches and it is printed in alternate openings in red and black ink.〔
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