Uncle Humphrey's tales of wonder & delight
Subtitle: for boys and girls
By: illustrated with fine engravings
Contributors: Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Thomas Holmes
Published: 1858
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Christian life; Juvenile fiction; Children; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Children's stories
Other titles: Uncle Humphrey's tales of wonder and delight
Description: Children's stories encouraging honesty, obedience, and kindness and discouraging selfishness and avarice.
Notes: Includes Jacob Abbott's "The steeple trap" and H.C. Wright's "A kiss for a blow."

Many stories written in dialogues.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.