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Mother Goose's Melody The second major collection of English-language nursery rhymes with illustrations by the young Thomas Bewick was published by Thomas Carnan, the nephew of John Newbery,in 1780. It has been attributed to Oliver Goldsmith on insufficient evidence. It was reissued in the original format in 1784 by John Marshall, a major London publisher for children.

Iona and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950). </ref