A treasury of pleasure books for young people
Subtitle: With elegant illustrations printed in oil colors
Publisher: Hurd & Houghton
Published: 1865
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Nursery rhymes; Picture books for children
Other titles: Mother Goose.
Notes: Includes Mother Goose rhymes and other children's stories; The three bears, at end, is paged 14 p., the rest of the volume is unpaged.
Table of contents: title: Large letters for the little ones; title: Tom, the piper's son; title: The robin's yule song; title: The little guinea pig; title: The frog who would a-wooing go; title: The bear and the children / [From H.C. Andersen's "Picture book without pictures." Translated by Meta Taylor. Cf. 1853 D. Appleton and Company (New York) edition.]; title: The history of Mother Goose and her son Jack; title: The simple story of simple Simon; title: The fox and the geese; title: Maja's alphabet; title: Little Bo Peep and Henny Penny / [Henny Penny translated by Robert Chambers. Cf. 1853 D. Appleton and Company (New York) edition.]; title: Hans in luck / [By the Brothers Grimm]; title: The cat and the mouse; title: The ugly little duck / [H.C. Andersen]; title: The little man and the little maid / [Attributed to Charles Sedley by Horace Walpole. Cf. Oxford companion to children's lit., 1984]; title: The charmed fawn; title: The three bears.