1785. _Mother Goose_. The original Mother Goose's melody, as first issued by John Newbery, of London, about A.D. 1760. Reproduced in facsimile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., A.D. 1785 (about) ... Albany, J. Munsell's Sons, 1889. 28 pp. 1787. _Banbury Chap-Books and Nursery Toy-Book Literature_ (of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) ... Pearson, Edwin. With very much that is interesting and valuable appertaining to the early typography of children's books relating to Great Britain and America.... London, A. Reader, 1890: 116 pp. Impressions from wood-cut blocks by T. and J. Bewick, Cruikshank, Craig, Lee, Austin, and others. 1789. _The Olden Time Series_. Gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Mass. Brooks, Henry M., _comp_. Boston, Ticknor & Co., 1886. 6 vols. _The Books that Children Read in 1798_ ... by T.C. Cushing: vol. 6, pp. 62-63. 1800-1825. Goodrich, S.G. _Recollections of a Lifetime_. New York, Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. 2 vols. Children's books (1800-1825): vol. 1, pp. 164-74. 1686. _The History of Tom Thumb_. John Dunton, Boston. 1728. _Chap-Books_. Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia. 1730. _Small Histories_. Andrew Bradford, Philadelphia. These included _Tom Thumb_, _Tom Hickathrift_, and _Dick Whittington_. 1744. _The Child's New Plaything_. Draper & Edwards, Boston. Reprint. Contained alphabet in rhyme, proverbs, fables, and stories: _St. George and the Dragon_; _Fortunatus_; _Guy of Warwick_; _Brother and Sister_; _Reynard the Fox_; and _The Wolf and the Kids_. 1750. John Newbery's books. Advertised in Philadelphia _Gazette_. The _Pretty Book for Children_ probably included _Cinderella_, _Tom Thumb_, etc. 1760. All juvenile publications for sale in England. Imported and sold by Hugh Gaine, New York. 1766. _Children's books_. Imported and sold by John Mein, a London bookseller who had a shop in Boston. Included _The Famous Tommy Thumb's Story Book_; _Leo the Great Giant_; _Urax, or the Fair Wanderer_; and _The Cruel Giant, Barbarico_. 1787. All Newbery's publications. Reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass. 1794. _Arabian Nights. The Arabian Nights Entertainments_ .... The first American edition.... Philadelphia, H. & P. Rice; Baltimore, J. Rice & Co., 1794. 2 vols. 1804. _Blue Beard. A New History of Blue Beard, written by Gaffer Black Beard, for the Amusement of Little Jack Black and his Pretty Sisters_. Philadelphia, J. Adams, 1804. 31 pp. 1819. _Rip Van Winkle_. A legend included in the works of Washington Irving, published in London, 1819.