| 词条 | Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book |
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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the first anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744. It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children. A copy is held in the British Library. In 2013 a facsimile edition with an introduction by Andrea Immel and Brian Alderson was published by the Cotsen Occasional Press. PublicationWith the full title: Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll. [sic] II, this was a sequel to the now lost Tommy Thumb's Song Book, published in London by Mary Cooper in 1744.[1][2][3] For many years, it was thought that there was only a single copy in existence, now in the British Library,[4] but in 2001 another copy appeared and was sold for £45,000.[5] 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 nursery rhymes that is available.[6] The rhymes and illustrations were printed from copper plates, the text being stamped with punches into the plates, a technique borrowed from map and music printing. It is 3×1{{Fraction|3|4}} inches and it is printed in alternate openings in red and black ink.[6] ContentsThe book contains forty nursery rhymes, many of which are still popular, including;
There are also a number of less familiar rhymes, some of which were probably unsuitable for later sensibilities, including: Piss a Bed, Piss a Bed, Barley Butt, Your Bum is so heavy, You can't get up. Some nursery rhymes turn up in disguise: The Moon shines Bright, The Stars give a light, And you may kiss A pretty girl At ten a clock at night. This is an earlier version of: When I was a little boy My mammy kept me in, Now I am a great boy, I'm fit to serve the king. I can handle a musket, And I can smoke a pipe. And I can kiss a pretty girl At twelve o'clock at night.[7] References1. ^{{cite book| last1=Wolf |first1=Shelby |last2=Coats |first2=Karen |last3=Enciso |first3=Patricia A. |last4=Jenkins |first4=Christine |title=Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ7rTWMZw_cC&pg=PA188 |year=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780203843543 |page=188}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book|url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/tommy-thumbs-pretty-song-book|agency=British Library}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Lynch|first1=Jack|title=The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=90}} 4. ^British Library, "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book". retrieved 14 November 2009. 5. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1365141/News-in-brief.html "Rhyme book fetches £45,500"]. 13 December 2001, Telegraph.co.uk, Retrieved 14 November 09. 6. ^1 H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 533–4. 7. ^William S. Baring-Gould and Ceil Baring-Gould, The Annotated Mother Goose, pp. 24–43. See also
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