Famous boys; and how they became great men. : Dedicated to youths and young men as a stimulus to earnest living..
Johnson, Joseph,1822-
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham,Baron,1778-1868.
Stanesby, Samuel.
Melville, Harden Sidney,active 1837-1882.illustratorengraver.
Salomons, David,Sir,1851-1925,former owner.StEdNL
Darton & Co.publisher.
London: : Darton and Co., 58, Holborn Hill.,
1862..
Horace Greeley -- James Gordon Bennett -- George Stephenson and his son Robert, the railway kings -- Lord Brougham -- John Kitto -- Hugh Miller -- Samuel Drew -- Thomas Cooper -- William Jay -- John Philpot Curran -- Samuel Crompton -- Elihu Burritt -- Douglas Jerrold -- David Livingstone -- James Morrison -- Joseph Sturge -- Alderman Thomas Kelly.
Some ill. signed: H. S. Melville.
With albumen print of Lord Brougham mounted as frontispiece.
With chromolithograph frontispiece and additional title page by Samuel Stanesby.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown "Sir David Salomons Bart. / Broomhill, / Tunbridge Wells.
Contemporary half calf binding by John Bumpus of Oxford Street, London.
Boys
Adventure and adventurers
Engineers
Millionaires
Clergy
Philosophers
Politicians
Authors
England London.