A Treasury of pleasure books, for young people
Subtitle: beautifully illustrated with colored plates
Contributors: Absolon, John, 1815-1895, illustrator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Sheldon, Blakeman & Company
Published: 1858
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's stories; Children's poetry
Notes: In prose and verse; some with separate title pages.

Contains illustrations by John Absolon and Harrison Weir.

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 house that Jack built; title: Tom the piper's son; title: Simple Simon; title: The bear and the children; title: Courtship and wedding of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren; title: Hans in luck; title: Little Bo-Peep; title: Henny Penny; title: The fox and the geese; title: Maja's alphabet; title: Old Mother Hubbard and her dog; title: The ugly little duck; title: The old woman and her pig; title: The charmed fawn.