The tales of Peter Parley, about Europe. : With engravings

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

P.

Tisdale, Elkanah, 1768-1835

Perkins, E. G.

Carter and Hendee, publisher.

Gray and Bowen, publisher.

Waitt & Dow, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1830.

Travel literature -- Juvenile fiction.

Publishers' catalogues -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Physical Description:

152 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Peter Parley's tales.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Published by Carter & Hendee, and Gray & Bowen, 1830.

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, p. [3-5], dated at Boston, May 1, 1828.

"Considerable atten-tion has been paid to improving the work; the chap-ters have been divided into sections which are num-bered, the questions have been enlarged, and many new cuts introduced."--Publisher's note to the second edition, p. [5-6], dated at Boston, Nov. 10th, 1829.

Added illustrated title page, second plate: Peter Parley's tales.

By Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. his Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 539.

Copyright 1828 by S.G. Goodrich.

"Waitt & Dow's Print, 122 Washington Street."--t.p. verso.

Each paragraph numbered.

Page 68 misnumbered 86.

In plain boards with leather spine.

Frontispiece plate engraved on metal by E.G. Perkins after a design by Elkanah Tisdale. Wood-engraving, p. 60, signed: P.

"Carter & Hendee publish in connexion with this work"--catalogue, t.p. verso.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 1644