Reuben Ramble's stories for his young friends
Subtitle: selected from Peter Parley's annual.
Contributors: Gray, Charles, engraver, d. 1847.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.; Landells, Ebenezer, 1808-1860.; Andrew & Wagner,; Lewis and Son
Publisher: J. S. Lingham
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Steel engravings -- Specimens -- Great Britain -- 1849.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Reuben Rambles stories
Notes: Preliminary steel-engraved plate is unsigned and without imprint.  Plate is with title caption.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  One each is with signature: "C. Gray Sc.", "Whimper", "Landells", "Andrew & Wagner".

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrated initials.

A connection cannot be determined between this title and "Peter Parley's annual", a boy's annual published in Britain under various imprints from 1840-1892.  See McLean D 0838 - McLean D 0868.

MASS copy: Bound in red cord-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration similar to those within the text.  With pale yellow endpapers.  With bookplate: "Ex libris C. J. Peacock".  Lacking upper free endpaper.
Table of contents: value: Story of a smuggler; value: Signing of the papers in the vaults of Lady Place; value: Something about ships; value: Something about alligators; value: Penn's treaty with the Indians; value: Story of a smuggler; value: Something about the eternal city; value: Ancient minstrels and minnesingers; value: Timour the Tartar; value: Lost among the mountains; value: Story of a smuggler; value: Joan of Arc; the maid of Orleans; value: Lost among the mountains; value: Tamerlane the Great: the middle life of Timour; value: The gold fish; value: William Wallace; the hero of Scotland; value: Tamerlane the Great: the old age of Tamerlane; value: Joan of Arc; the maid of Orleans; value: My mother; value: Something about emigration; value: Something about serpents; value: The electrical light; value: Peter the Great; value: The old hen and young cock; value: A fair and happy milkmaid / by Sir Thomas Overbury.