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A wonder-book for girls and boys. / By Nathaniel Hawthorne. ; With engravings by Baker from designs by Billings.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1853 Hawthor
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Mythology.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1853.
- Physical Description:
- vi, [1], 8-256 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields., MDCCCLIII. [1853]
- Notes:
- "The author has long been of the opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view."--Preface, dated at Lenox, July 15th, 1851, p. [iii]-vi.
- "Third printing." Cf. Clark, C.E.F. Nathaniel Hawthorne, p. 183.
- Copyright 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- "Press of Geo. C. Rand, wood cut and book printer, Cornhill, Boston. Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, Boston."--verso of title page.
- In cloth. Variant colors noted in Clark. Binding attributed to Benjamin Bradley & Co. by Clark.
- Cited in:
- Clark, C.E.F. Hawthorne, A 18.1.c.
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