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Tales worth telling, or A traveller's adventures by sea and land : told to his young listeners, Frederic and Lucy : Illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three engravings.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Manners and customs.
- Costume.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Other Title:
- Traveller's adventures by sea and land
- Frederic and Lucy, or, Food for young minds
- Frederic and Lucy or Food for young minds.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Crosby and Nichols, 1863.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "These compositions are a condensed series of truths in travels, related in evening fireside conversation, connected by no chain of but the queries of children and a mother's replies."--Preface, pages [iii]-iv, signed, "a mother" (id est, the editor), and dated at Boston, 1852.
- In black cloth.
- Wood engravings variously signed by "H" (i.e., Alonzo Hartwell?), "GLB" (i.e., George Loring Brown), "B" (i.e., Abel Bowen), "M" (i.e., Abraham John Mason?), and "ID" (page 78). Includes a map of the area surrounding Mount Vesuvius.
- Subject index, page [v].
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905313517
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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