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Message:: [QUOTE="Bingamum, post: 4124077, member: 19618"]Thank you for your information Figtree. McLoughlin is such an interesting company and had such a huge selection of children's titles and games. There were so many different Mother Goose versions as you have said and with different illustrators. Greenaway was so popular it is no wonder they would have used her illustrations for their own version (they even kept her dedication page intact). The book definitely shows up in the 1882-83 catalogue and if I'm reading it correctly there were "six kinds" which sounds like a choice of six covers. Mine is The Little Maid. Retail was 12 cents each! At least they use the term "after" Greenaway rather than claiming the whole of the artwork. Like I told Baseball, cheeky of them to then copyright their version though to be fair they do say in the ad that they have re-coloured and re-sized the images. I will reach out to the Antiquarian site and they might have some more information. Given the lack of copies that I have been able to find online maybe they had to quit publishing this particular book. The plot thickens! I'll post an update if I find anything more to the story.[/QUOTE]