Besides these toy-book collections, there is a large edition of _Gammer Gurton's Garland_, of the year 1810, which contains the collections of 1783 with considerable additions. In the year 1826, Chambers published his _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, which contained some fireside stories and nursery rhymes, the number of which was considerably increased in the enlarged edition of 1870. In the year 1842, Halliwell, under the auspices of the Percy Society, issued the _Nursery Rhymes of England_, which were reprinted in 1843, and again in an enlarged edition in 1846. Three years later he supplemented this book by a collection of _Popular Rhymes_ which contain many traditional game rhymes and many valuable remarks and criticisms. These books, together with the rhymes of Gawler, and a collection of _Old Nursery Rhymes with Tunes_, issued by Rimbault in 1864, exhaust the collections of nursery rhymes which have a claim on the attention of the student. Most of their contents were subsequently collected and issued by the firm of Warne & Co., under the title _Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, Tales and Jingles_, of which the issue of 1890 contains over seven hundred pieces. In the list which follows, I have arranged these various collections of rhymes in the order of their issue, with a few modern collections that contain further rhymes. Of those which are bracketed I have not succeeded in finding a copy. (1719. _Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies._ Printed by T. Fleet.) 1744. _Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book._ _c._ 1760. _The Topbook of all._ (1771. _Tommy Thumb's Little Story Book._ The nine rhymes which this contains are cited by Whitmore.) (1780. _Mother Goose's Melody_, for which copyright was taken by John Carnan.) _c._ 1783. _Gammer Gurton's Garland._ 1788. _Tommy Thumb's Song Book_, issued by Isaiah Thomas. (1797. _Infant Institutes_, cited by Halliwell and Rimbault.) 1799. _Mother Goose's Melody._ Facsimile reprint by Whitmore. 1810. _Gammer Gurton's Garland._ The enlarged edition, published by R. Triphook, 37 St. James Street, London. 1826. Chambers, _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. 1834-9. Ker, _Essays on the Archaiology of Nursery Rhymes_. 1842-3. Halliwell, _The Nursery Rhymes of England_. 1846. Halliwell, ditto. Enlarged and annotated edition. 1849. Halliwell, _Popular Rhymes_. 1864. Rimbault, _Old Nursery Rhymes with tunes_. 1870. Chambers, _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. Enlarged edition. 1876. Thiselton Dyer, _British Popular Customs_. 1890. _Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, Tales and Jingles._ Issued by Warne & Co. 1892. Northall, G. F., _English Folk Rhymes_. 1894. Gomme, A. B., _The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland_. In the studies which follow, the rhymes cited have attached to them the date of the collection in which they occur. CHAPTER II EARLY REFERENCES