Near home, or, Europe described
Subtitle: with anecdotes and numerous illustrations
By: by the Author of the "Peep of day.".
Contributors: Williams, S., illustrator; Carreras, Theodore, illustrator; Adeney, engraver
Edition: New edition / carefully revised, and embracing new boundaries and other changes.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Hatchards, Piccadilly
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Costume; Juvenile literature; National characteristics; Anti-Catholicism; Social life and customs; Description and travel
Other titles: Europe described
Notes: Includes publisher's catalog.

Some illustrations signed S. Williams or Carreras; some engraved by Adeney.

Includes col. fold-out map of Europe.

"The world which God made ought to be governed by the book which He wrote."

"Fifty new pictures."

"Eighth-seventh thousand."

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