The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).
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(the rhymes are arranged in these thematic categories)
I. Historical
II. Literal and Scholastic
III. Tales
IV. Proverbs
V. Songs
VI. Riddles and Paradoxes
VII. Charms and Lullabies
VIII. Gaffers and Gammers
IX. Games
X. Jingles
XI. Love and Matrimony
XII. Natural History
XIII. Accumulative Stories
XIV. Relics
