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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.

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.

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