Rainbows for children
By: Edited by L. Maria Child. ; With twenty-eight illustrations
Contributors: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880, editor; Wallin, Samuel, illustrator; Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver; Ticknor and Fields; C.S. Francis & Co
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields.
Published: 1868
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Children's stories; Women as authors
Notes: "The author merely intended them for the private amusement of a few juvenile relatives; but the MS. accidentally met my eye, and I was so charmed with the freshness and beauty of the stories, that I begged permission to publish them."--Preface, p. 7. Attributed to Caroline S. Tappan in BAL (3161).

New York copyright 1847 by C.S. Francis & Co.

"Ticknor & Co."--Spine.

In red cloth.

"Twenty-eight original sketches have been neatly designed by Mr. S. Wallin, of City Hall Place; and Mr. B.F. Childs ... one of our best wood-engravers."--Preface, p. 8.

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1958 ed.), 1258
Table of contents: title: Fiamma, or The vase of golden water; title: The crystal palace; title: Violet's May-Day; title: Gertrude's search; or, Fairy music; title: Bright sunshine; title: The little voyagers; title: Fanny's menagerie; title: The rainbow-winged spirit; title: Rose Island.