A wonder-book for girls and boys
By: by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; with engravings by Baker from designs by Billings
Contributors: Baker, William Jay, engraver; Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874, illustrator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Gorgon's head.; Golden touch.; Paradise of children.; Three golden apples.; Miraculous pitcher.; Chimæra.
Notes: First printing (error on page 21, line 3, "lifed" for "lifted").

Preface dated Lenox, July 15, 1851.

First published in London in 1851.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: The gorgon's head; title: The golden touch; title: The paradise of children; title: The three golden apples; title: The miraculous pitcher; title: The chimæra.