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[ New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914 [. Original stiff paper wrappers, each with a color reproduction of a different plate from The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose. With gilt border and lettering. Rear cover printed with an advertisement for Colgate talcum powder. 10 booklets, 5 inches by 3 inches. 8 pp. each. . With 4 black-and-white illustrations in each booklet to accompany the rhymes. Some creasing to pages and wrappers and some toning throughout the set. Open tear at fore-edge of page 3 in the Little Miss Muffet booklet (with no text or images affected). Overall a very good, clean, and attractive set. The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose was first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1914. There are no previous editions of these Toybooks, which were published in a set of twelve. The titles included here are Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Tuffet; Rain, Rain Go Away; Little Bo-peep; Mary, Mary Quite Contrary; Ring a-round a Rosie; See Saw, Margery Daw; Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt Thou Be… Read More

New York: Good Housekeeping Magazine & Colgate, 1913. First edition thus. First edition thus. Glossy card wrappers. Offered here is a collection of nine of the original Mother Goose toybooks (of 12) issued by Colgate & Co. in 1913 as a promo for Smith's book containing the color illustrations appearing in these booklets. Each booklet has full color cover and same color advertisement for Colgate (also by Smith) on rear cover. Contents have eight pages of black and white line drawings by Smith also from the book. One title has slight offset on cover (i.e. not cut properly from press). In all a very good set. Scarce.