Nathaniel Dearborn
Illustrator
(1786 - 1852)
Nathaniel Dearborn was a was a wood engraver in Boston. He apprenticed under Abel Bowen.
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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