Alexander Anderson
(1775 - 1870)
Dr. Alexander Anderson was an American physician and a wood engraver working in New York in the early nineteenth century. He was termed "America's First Illustrator."
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