Abbreviations
| advt. | advertised | illus. | illustrated by |
| biblio. | bibliography | MS | manuscript |
| c. | circa, about | n.d. | not dated |
| cf. | confer, compare | NR | Nursery Rhymes (in book titles) |
| ed. | edition, or edited by | p.p. ed. | privately printed edition |
| e.g. | exempli gratia, for example | q.v. | quod vide, which see |
Authors and Books
| American Folk-Lore | Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1888-1950. |
| Baby's Bouquet | The Baby's Bouquet, 'A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes and Tunes', arranged and decorated by Walter Crane , 1879. |
| Baby's Opera | The Baby's Opera "'A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters'", by Walter Crane, 1877. |
| Baring-Gould | Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, 1895. |
| Bett | Henry Bett, Nursery Rhymes and Tales, 1924; The Games of Children, 1929. |
| Bolton | Henry Carrington Bolton, The Counting-out Rhymes of Children, 1888. |
| Chambers | Robert Chambers, The Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1826. Revised and enlarged 1842, 1847, and 1870. |
| Christmas Box | Christmas Box ( A. Bland and Weller). Tunes by James Hook , 1797. Vols. ii and iii, 1798. |
| Crofton MS | Addison Crofton, 'Children's Rhymes', 2 MS vols., completed 1901. (Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. e 39-40.) |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Douce MS | Francis Douce and another, MS additions to Gam- mer Gurton's Garland ( 1784), c. 1800-c. 1820 (Douce R 227). |
| Douce MS II |
? Member of Douce family, MS additions to Gammer Gurton's Garland ( 1810), c. 1820 (Douce Adds. 134 (8)). |
| Eckenstein | Lina Eckenstein, Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes, 1906. |
| Folk-Lore | The Folk-Lore Record, 1878-82; The Folk-Lore Journal, 1883-9; Folk-Lore, 1890-1950. |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
Edition: 2nd.
Contributors: Peter Opie - Editor, Iona Opie - Editor.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 1997.
Page number: xxvi.
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