Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋

Good- and Gentlefolk,

I give you the grandest nursery song ever to be penned in Merry England:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tommy_Thumb%27s_Pretty_Song_Book

#Folklore #Reading #ChildrensLit #NurseryRhyme

Mar 21 at 8:44amWeb
Show threadSimon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋4d ago

Wikisource blurb:

> 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.

> Tommy Thumb's 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.