The tales of Peter Parley, about Europe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860, author.

Contributor:

Tisdale, Elkanah, 1768-1835, illustrator.

Perkins, E. G., engraver.

Series:

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Peter Parley's tales

Peter Parley's tales

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Carter and Hendee, and Gray and Bowen, 1830.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"The author ... has divided the work into chapters, or lessons, and has subjoined questions, thus adapting the book to the use of schools, and rendering it at the same time more easy for parents to assist their children in gaining the first ideas of geography and history."--Preface, pages [3]-5, dated from Boston, May 1, 1828.

"Considerable attention has been paid to improving the work; the chapters have been divided into sections which are numbered, the questions have been enlarged, and many new cuts introduced."--Publisher's note to the second edition, page 6, dated from Boston, Nov. 10th, 1829.

"Carter & Hendee publish in connexion with this work"--Publisher's advertisement, title page verso.

Each paragraph numbered.

No errors in paging.

Frontispiece engraved by E.G. Perkins after Elkanah Tisdale.

Added engraved title page.

Wood-engraved illustrations.

Cf. Goodrich, S.G. Recollections of a lifetime, volume 2, page 539.

Cf. Osborne Coll., page 181.

"With engravings."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

905337918

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.