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Thread #64408   Message #1052859
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Nov-03 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: INDEX Making of America books
Subject: INDEX Making of America books
The Making of America Books (on line) comprises 8,618 volumes, almost 3 million pages, on every conceivable topic, mostly before 1900.
Included are books of poems, songs, rhymes, children's literature, history, science, religion- a great variety.
Masato called attention in thread 64091 to the complete eight volume 1860 edition of the Child "English and Scottish Ballads"

If my link doesn't work, please go to above listed thread and use one of Masato's links to get to Home and Browse in the Making of America website (I am not good at this). Child

A useful entry is the "Browse Main Entry" page, where entries are alphabetically listed by author, and title. Browse

Volumes I examined today included two children's books by Mary Mapes Dodge (1830-1905), "Rhymes and Jingles," and "Baby World" (selection from St. Nicholas Magazine for children).

Also found, just foraging, was
Ainslie, Hew (1792-1878), "Scottish Songs, Ballads and Poems."
Wm. Shakespeare, "The Dramatic Works and Poems."
Sherman, F. D., "Lyrics for a Lute" (poems)
Harte, Bret, Three volumes of poetry.
Hay, John, "Pike County Ballads" (and another volume of his poetry).
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Passages from his English Notebooks (two vol.)
Wanless, Andrew, "Poems, and Songs, mostly Scotch."
etc. etc.