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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys / By Nathaniel Hawthorne ; With Engravings By Baker From Designs By Billings |
| Date | 1852 |
| Record ID | 195675 |
| Collection Name | Theme based Selections |
| Reference | Reserve 1852 05 |
| Theme | War and Revolution Morality, Manners and Consequences Family and Relationships |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Mythology |
| Genre | Folklore, Myths and Legends |
| Author | Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) |
| Publisher | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields Hobart and Robbins B Bradley & Co |
| Illustrator | Billings, Hammatt (1818-1874) |
| Document Type | Anthology |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1852 Myths and legends--1852 Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1852 Grained cloth (Binding)--1852. |
| Size | vi, [1], 8-256 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm |
| Page Numbers | vi, [1], 8-256 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. 18 cm |
| Additional Notes | Baker, William Jay, engraver. |
| Catalog 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]-iv. "Second printing." Cf. Clark, C.E.F. Nathaniel Hawthorne, p. 183. Clark notes two variant issues: the first printing with the word "lifed" in the third line on p. 21; and the second printing with the word corrected to "lifted" in the third line on p. 21. Copyright 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Ticknor & Co."--spine. "Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, Boston."--verso of title page. In cloth. Variant grains and colors noted in BAL. Bindings attributed to Benjamin Bradley & Co. by Clark. |
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A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
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