Editing Nursery rhyme (section)

===19th century===
[[File:Aa.vv., popular nursery tales and rhymes, warner & routledge, londra 1859 ca. (gabinetto vieusseux).JPG|thumb|''Popular Nursery Tales and Rhymes'', Warner & Routledge, London, {{Circa|1859}}]]
[[File:Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - sung with full lyrics.ogg|thumb|A person singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"]]

In the early 19th century, printed collections of rhymes began to spread to other countries, including [[Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)|Robert Chambers]]' ''Popular Rhymes of Scotland'' (1826) and in the United States, ''Mother Goose's Melodies'' (1833).<ref name="M. Prichard, 1984 p. 383" /> From this period, the origins and authors of rhymes are sometimes known—for instance, in "[[Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star]]" which combines the melody of an 18th-century French tune "[[Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star#French "nursery rhyme" version|Ah vous dirai-je, Maman]]" with a 19th-century English poem by [[Jane Taylor (poet)|Jane Taylor]] entitled "The Star" used as lyrics.<ref>Paula R. Feldman, ed: ''British women poets of the Romantic era: an anthology'' (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 712. {{ISBN|080185430X}}</ref>

Early folk song collectors also often collected (what is now known as) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland [[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]] and in Germany [[Clemens Brentano]] and [[Achim von Arnim]] in ''[[Des Knaben Wunderhorn]]'' (1806–1808).{{sfn|Carpenter|Prichard|1984|p=384}} The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was [[James Halliwell-Phillipps]]' ''The Nursery Rhymes of England'' (1842) and ''Popular Rhymes and Tales'' in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities (historical), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs (lullabies).<ref>R. M. Dorson, ''The British Folklorists: a History'' (Taylor & Francis, 1999), p. 67.</ref> By the time of [[Sabine Baring-Gould]]'s ''A Book of Nursery Songs'' (1895), folklore was an academic study full of comments and footnotes. A professional anthropologist, [[Andrew Lang]] (1844–1912) produced ''The Nursery Rhyme Book'' in 1897.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lang |first1=Andrew |title=The Nursery Rhyme Book: Volume 1 |date=1897 |publisher=hansebooks |edition=2020 reprint}}</ref>