Tanglewood tales for girls and boys
Subtitle: being a second Wonderbook.
By: By Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
Contributors: Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Mythology, Classical -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Added t.-p., illustrated.
This is probably the 3d issue of the 1st edition, as the publishers' advertisements, bound in the book, are dated October, 1853, while those of the first issue are dated August, and there are still others of September. The first issue has the imprint of the stereotyper on the verso of the title-page, while the later issues have the imprint of the printer above that of the stereotyper. cf. Grolier club, First editions of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, N.Y., 1905.
Table of contents: title: The wayside (Introductory); title: The Minotaur.; title: The pygmies.; title: The dragon's teeth.; title: Circe's palace.; title: The pomegranate seeds.; title: The golden fleece.