Publication
With the full title: Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll. II, this was a sequel to the now lost Tommy Thumb's Song Book, published in London by Mary Cooper in 1744. For many years, it was thought that there was only a single copy in existence, now in the British Library, but in 2001 another copy appeared and was sold for £45,000. An alleged earlier collection, Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies, was supposedly published in Boston in 1719. However, the location has been disputed, and no record of such work exists. Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby, quotes or alludes to some half-dozen or so nursery rhymes. As a result, this is the oldest printed collection of English language nursery rhymes that is available. The book seems to have been printed entirely from copperplates, which contained words and illustrations. It is 3x1 inches and it is printed with alternating red and black pages.
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