A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, second issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Denslow%27s+Mother+Goose&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Denslow's Mother Goose</a>.<ul><li>Illustrated by W.W. Denslow (American).</li><li>Lettered by Frederic W. Goudy.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;McClure Phillips Co,&nbsp;1901.</li><li>96 pages.</li><li>Humpty Dumpty not on verso of dedication leaf (second issue).</li><li>Original quarter green cloth, paper pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul> First edition, second issue, with fabulous color plates by Denslow facing text hand-lettered by the influential typographer Goudy.

Denslow's Mother Goose First Edition

Illustration drawing for the&nbsp;Mother Goose&nbsp;book of the character Tom, Tom the Piper's Son.<ul><li>W.W. Denslow (American).</li><li>n.p.&nbsp;n.p,&nbsp;[circa 1910].&nbsp;</li><li>Single Strathmore drawing board.</li></ul> After Denslow's death, a cache of his art was discovered in 1939. Buffalo publishers Baldwin &amp; Strachan used them to issue a pamphlet of Mother Goose rhymes that same year. The art is described in Greene and Hearn's biography of Denslow, saying in part that "it is likely that Denslow drew the pictures for one of his advertising pamphlets. The pictures first appeared in Youth Magazine, a hand-out to patrons of Dodd's Dairy in Buffalo. In issue eleven, this pamphlet was announced as available from Dodd's milkmen for ten cents."

Mother Goose Drawing

Illustration drawing for the Mother Goose book of the character Jack Sprat.<ul><li>W.W. Denslow (American).</li><li>n.p.&nbsp;n.p,&nbsp;[circa 1910].&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Denslow with his characteristic seahorse design.</li><li>Single Strathmore drawing board.</li></ul> After Denslow's death, a cache of his art was discovered in 1939. Buffalo publishers Baldwin &amp; Strachan used them to issue a pamphlet of Mother Goose rhymes that same year. The art is described in Greene and Hearn's biography of Denslow, saying in part that "it is likely that Denslow drew the pictures for one of his advertising pamphlets. The pictures first appeared in Youth Magazine, a hand-out to patrons of Dodd's Dairy in Buffalo. In issue eleven, this pamphlet was announced as available from Dodd's milkmen for ten cents."

Illustration drawing for the&nbsp;Mother Goose&nbsp;book of the character Old King Cole.<ul><li>W.W. Denslow (American).</li><li>n.p.&nbsp;n.p,&nbsp;[circa 1910].&nbsp;</li><li>Single Strathmore drawing board.</li></ul> After Denslow's death, a cache of his art was discovered in 1939. Buffalo publishers Baldwin &amp; Strachan used them to issue a pamphlet of Mother Goose rhymes that same year. The art is described in Greene and Hearn's biography of Denslow, saying in part that "it is likely that Denslow drew the pictures for one of his advertising pamphlets. The pictures first appeared in Youth Magazine, a hand-out to patrons of Dodd's Dairy in Buffalo. In issue eleven, this pamphlet was announced as available from Dodd's milkmen for ten cents."

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