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Denslow's Mother Goose : being the old familiar rhymes and jingles of Mother Goose

Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace), 1856-1915, Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) · 1901 · New York : McClure, Phillips & company, 1901. · 65 pictures

Denslow's Mother Goose is a 1901 nursery rhyme collection published in New York by McClure, Phillips & Company, illustrated by W. W. Denslow and set by Frederic Goudy for young children. Its pictures are flat, colour-block illustrations with bold outlines, dark green, orange and cream palettes, and comic caricature figures, offering designers a strong model for limited-palette character work and rhyme-based text layouts.

Nursery rhymes

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