The six days of creation
Subtitle: a series of familiar letters from a father to his children, describing the natural history of each day's mercies, with particular reference to the illustration of Scriptural truth
By: by W.G. Rhind
Contributors: Hughes, William, 1817-1876, illustrator, engraver
Edition: Fourth edition.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: W.H. Broom
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Geography; Textbooks; Creation; Juvenile literature; Natural history
Notes: "Summary of contents": pages [vii]-x, 1st count.

Plates drawn and engraved by S. Hughes, with imprint of S. Bagster & Sons, Paternoster Row.

Frontispiece, "A geographic clock for the comparison of London time with that of principal places in various parts of the world", with rotating indicator (volvelle)--attached by string. Plate facing page xix: "The terrestrial hemisphere, showing London as the centre of the habitable globe."

"First published in 1842 ": cf. Osborne Coll., page 835.

"This is not as the title is apt to indicate, a work on the Scriptures. It teaches the history of the creation in a manner that enlightens the young mind on the physical geographical, historical, and scientific properties of the earth": cf. Gumuchian, 4740.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.