The tales of Peter Parley, about Europe
Contributors: Tisdale, Elkanah, 1768-1835, illustrator; Perkins, E. G., engraver
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Peter Parley's tales; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Carter & Hendee, and Gray & Bowen
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Copyright date: 1828
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Description and travel
Notes: "The author ... has divided the work into chapters, or lessons, and has subjoined questions, thus adapting the book to the use of schools, and rendering it at the same time more easy for parents to assist their children in gaining the first ideas of geography and history."--Preface, p. [3]-5, dated from Boston, May 1, 1828.

"Considerable attention has been paid to improving the work; the chapters have been divided into sections which are numbered, the questions have been enlarged, and many new cuts introduced."--Publisher's note to the second edition, page 6, dated from Boston, Nov. 10th, 1829.

"Carter & Hendee publish in connexion with this work"--Publisher's advertisement, title page verso.

Each paragraph numbered.

No errors in paging.

Frontispiece engraved by E.G. Perkins after Elkanah Tisdale.

Added engraved title page.

Wood-engraved illustrations.

Cf. Goodrich, S.G. Recollections of a lifetime, v. 2, page 539.

Cf. Osborne Coll., page 181.

"With engravings."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.