Tales worth telling, or A traveller's adventures by sea and land
Subtitle: told to his young listeners, Frederic and Lucy : Illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three engravings
Contributors: Hartwell, Alonzo, 1805-1873, engraver; Brown, George Loring, 1814-1889, engraver; Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, engraver; Mason, Abraham John, 1794-1858, engraver
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Crosby and Nichols
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Natural history; Manners and customs; Costume
Other titles: Traveller's adventures by sea and land; Frederic and Lucy, or, Food for young minds; Frederic and Lucy or Food for young minds.
Notes: "These compositions are a condensed series of truths in travels, related in evening fireside conversation, connected by no chain of but the queries of children and a mother's replies."--Preface, pages [iii]-iv, signed, "a mother" (i.e., the editor), and dated at Boston, 1852.

In black cloth.

Wood engravings variously signed by "H" (i.e., Alonzo Hartwell?), "GLB" (i.e., George Loring Brown), "B" (i.e., Abel Bowen), "M" (i.e., Abraham John Mason?), and "ID" (page 78). Includes a map of the area surrounding Mount Vesuvius.

Subject index, page [v].

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