Abel Bowen
Illustrator
(1790 - 1850)
Abel Bowen was an early 19th century wood engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
Bibliography
Mother Goose's Melodies (1833)
This was the most well-known collection of nursery rhymes in America in the early nineteenth century. Read online at archive.org.
Abel Bowen
Nathaniel Dearborn
Mother Goose's Melodies (1970)
This is a reprint of the 1833 edition of Munroe & Francis of Boston, which was the first widely circulated Mother Goose in America.
Abel Bowen
Nathaniel Dearborn