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- The first mention of Mother Goose is in 1650, in a weekly French publication done in verse, which was published by Jean Loret.
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Perrault's publication marks the first authenticated starting-point for Mother Goose stories. An English translation of Perrault's collection, Robert Samber 's Histories or Tales of Past Times, Told by Mother Goose, appeared in 1729 and was reprinted in America in 1786.
Charles Perrault is credited with the first official publication of a Mother Goose collection in 1697 with Contes de ma mère l'oye (approximately translated “Tales of my Mother Goose”). This collection became popular in France and was translated by Robert Samber into English in 1729 as Histories, or Tales of Passed Times by Mother Goose.
The first known publication of a collection of Nursery Rhymes was in 1744 and the first confirmed collection of Nursery Rhymes using the term "Mother Goose" was published in 1780, although a collection of stories called "Mother Goose's Tales" was published in 1729!
“Mother Goose” was first associated with nursery rhymes in an early collection of “the most celebrated Songs and Lullabies of old British nurses,” Mother Goose’s Melody; or Sonnets for the Cradle (1781), published by the successors of one of the first publishers of children’s books, John Newbery.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, were published by Mary Cooper in 1744. Publisher John Newbery 's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle (London, 1780).
Apr 1, 2020 · The earliest game mentioned in Professor Seville’s talk in which Vauxhall Gardens played a part was called ‘The New & Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg,’ first designed and published in 1808 by John Wallis Sr. of 13 Warwick Square, and retailed by his son John Wallis Jr. of 188 Strand, London.
Hand coloured game, Mother Goose and the Golden Egg, published in England by John Wallis in 1808.
