The story of the peasant-boy philosopher, or, "A child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore"
Subtitle: (founded on the early life of Ferguson, the shepherd-boy astronomer, and intended to show how a poor lad became acquainted with the principles of natural science)
By: by Henry Mayhew, author of "London labour and the London poor"
Contributors: Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894, engraver; Gilbert, John, 1817-1897, illustrator
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: David Bogue
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Boys; Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Physical sciences; Scientific recreations; Scientists
Other titles: Story of the peasant-boy philosopher; Child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore
Notes: Some illustrations engraved by H. Vizetelly after drawings by Sir John Gilbert.

Binding design signed: "JL" (John Leighton).

Publisher's catalogue follows text.

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