Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England

by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1844

About the author

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, born James Orchard Halliwell, was an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

Reviews

[Bruce]

There are some charming antique rhymes collected by scholar Halliwell-Phillips in this 2015 reprint of the original 1899 edition including an over one-hundred-line version of Jack Sprat and his wife, far more than the four lines found in most collections of Mother Goose. There are several Jack tales, and a Greek version of the Cow Jumped Over the Moon.” Alas, none of the versions I have found for sale contain the tale of the “Three Little Pigs” or the lyrics to “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

Unfortunately this version published by the misnamed The Perfect Library, suffers from an abysmal format. It is littered with misplaced footnotes randomly strewn throughout the text probably by some artificially unintelligent computer program.

[Cat]

Good old book for browsing if one likes fairytales and nursery rhymes! The old familiars are in here along with some not so known ones. I love, and collect nursery rhymes and fairy tales, so this was a great find and a wonderful read!

[Alicia2794]

NmN

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