John Newbery - Bestselling Newbery Books

Bestselling Newbery Books

According to the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL 2.120), Newbery "wrote, wholly or partly" and "edited or materially influenced" the following works:

  • Mother Goose's Melody (1791) (A. H. Bullen's 1904 facsimile) by John Newbery, Isaiah Thomas, and William Henry Whitmore
  • A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) by M. F. Thwaite and John Newbery
  • The Newtonian System of Philosophy (1761) by Tom Telescope, John Newbery, and Oliver Goldsmith
  • The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1764)
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) by John Newbery (perhaps written with Oliver Goldsmith)
  • The Entertaining History of Tommy Gingerbread a Little Boy who Lived Upon Learning by John Newbery

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