Heroism of boyhood
Subtitle: or, What boys have done : with eight full-page illustrations
By: by Peter Parley ... ; and other popular authors.
Contributors: Martin, William, 1801-1867.; Pannemaker, Stéphane, 1847-1930.; Harral, Horace.; Foulquier, Jean Antoine Valentin, 1822-1896.; Carbonneau, Jean Baptiste Charles, b. 1815.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Darton and Hodge
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Washington, George, -- 1732-1799 -- Portraits.; Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.; Heroes -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Portraits.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: What boys have done
Notes: Date taken from Preface signed "Peter Parley".

Added chromolithographed decorative t.p.

T.p. and text printed within thin black rule border.

T.p. printed with publisher's device.

Preliminary plate is with an oval photographic print of an engraved portrait of George Washington with a chromolithographed background.  Plate is without signature or imprint.

Some wood-engraved plates are with signatures: H. Harral, Pannemaker, Etherington,  V. Foulquier and Carbonneau.  All are with captions.

Pseudonym used for this title by William Martin.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Goodrich, S. G. Recollections of a lifetime, v. 2, p. 551.

MASS copy: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, silver and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With dark brown painted endpapers.  With prize inscription: "Writing Prize  H. Groom  Dagnall House.  Xmas 1866.".