1st Edition Complete text, 1842 originally published in the Percy Society's Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages.		2nd Edition Complete text, 1843, Based on the 1st edition & published as an independent work.		4th Edition Complete text, 1846, with illustrations. Edited with the wider public in mind, this is the same as the 3rd edition, but with a supplement
Contents These are links to each chapter	Index These entries link to the rhymes in each chapter	Contents These are links to each chapter	Index These entries link to the rhymes in each chapter	Contents The links call up separate chapter htmls.	Index The links call up the rhymes in the separate chapter htmls.
1st Edition Abridged edition		2nd Edition Abridged edition		5th Edition Abridged edition, plus additional illustrations.
Index for all editions		Illustrator's biography & portrait		Illustrations

Editorial note regarding the different editions Plus corrections made since 2003

Sources referred to in the text

Examples of other Nursery Rhyme publications

The remaining entries will follow within several months as will 'zip' versions of the different editions. Due to problems with the html editor's temp file a handful of errors remained in the 1st, 4th, & 5th texts. The corrected versions of the 1st abridged & 4th editions are now online. The index to the latter, to include the Supplement, will follow shortly. The source text will display the revision dates.