The Child's pleasure book
Subtitle: beautifully illustrated with colored plates
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Sheldon & Company; Gould & Lincoln
Published: 1861
Place of publication: New York; Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's poetry
Other titles: Little man and little maid.; Tom, the piper's son.; Little Bo-Peep.; Fox and the geese.; Maja's alphabet.; Old woman and her pig.; Simple Simon.; Bear and the children.; Henny Penny.; Hans in luck.
Notes: In prose and verse.

Each tale has separate half-title page.

"With illustrations by John Absalom [i.e. Absalon] & Harrison Weir"--Half-title page.

Illustrations are hand-colored.

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 little man and little maid; title: Tom, the piper's son; title: Simple Simon; title: The bear and the children; title: Little Bo-peep; title: Henny Penny; title: The fox and the geese; title: Maja's alphabet; title: The old woman and her pig; title: Hans in luck.