Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book

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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744)
by Nurse Lovechild

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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book is the second-oldest known collection of English nursery rhymes (after Tommy Thumb's Song Book). Its two extant copies are the oldest surviving physical books of nursery rhymes. It includes the first known versions of many popular English nursery rhymes.

The Pretty Song Book was published in May 1744 in London by Mary Cooper. It was originally a two-volume set, but the first volume is no longer extant.

The transcription below is currently missing the two poems "Taunymoor" and "Tom Brown's Indian Boys", which were redacted from the book's scan by the British Library due to their controversial content. For more information, see the discussion on the Index talk page.

4530314Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book1744Nurse Lovechild

TOMMY THUMB'S

PRETTY

SONG BOOK.

Voll, II.

Sold by M Cooper,
According to Act of Parliam^t

Chapters (not listed in original)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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