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Green cloth book cover embossed with silhouette of adult reading book to two children
Peter Parley's tales about boys : at home and abroad : The lost sea boys, Humility, The snake charmer, The young reformers, Self conduct, Sincerity, &c. &c.
Green cloth book cover embossed with silhouette of adult reading book to two children

Peter Parley's tales about boys : at home and abroad : The lost sea boys, Humility, The snake charmer, The young reformers, Self conduct, Sincerity, &c. &c.

Dateapproximately 1850
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Alternate Title
  • Tales about boys
Format
Notes
Attributed to William Martin.
Frontispiece, "The foundling", engraved by H. Rolls after Francis Philip Stephanoff.
Title page vignette of Peter Parley is engraved on wood.
Undated. Edward Lacey was in business until 1848, cf. P.A.H. Brown London publishers and printers p. 109. Inscription on flyleaf dated Dec. 25th 1852.
Medium
DimensionsCover size: 12.5 cm x 10.5 cm (4 15/16 in. x 4 1/8 in.)
Extent
  • [4], 188 pages, [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece)
Language
CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131054872205D
Catalogue Record for Print Bookhttps://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=813744