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Mother Goose Photos & Illustrations

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**Mother Goose Photos & Illustrations** **Mother Goose flies on a goose ~ She reads with a dog ~ She sits with children.**
**Sometimes she's shown as a person ~ other times she's depicted as a goose.**
**Every illustrator has his or her own vision. Here are just a few samples of old Mother Goose book covers.**
**Many older books do not carry a publication date.**
**Used-book and antique dealers "date" books based on knowledge of the publisher's line.**
**Such professional assessments list the date with a small "c" to indicate "circa" or "about."** **(These graphics page may be a bit slow loading.)**
Ads: Buri's Holsum Bread; Pettijohn's Breakfast Food	Patchwork: Dame Flies on a Goose	Twelve Book Covers by Jessie Wilcox Smith
Early Illustrations in Black & White	Victorian Style

**The wonderful all-in-red Mother Goose**
**below was part of a promotion by Buri's Holsum Bread,**
**believed to be pre-1900.**
**The black & white rendition below it was also a promotion.**
Pettijohn Breakfast Food advertisement; *premium was Frank Baum's book, Mother Goose in Prose, 1900,* with illustrations by W. W. Denslow