The wonders of home
Subtitle: in eleven stories
By: by Grandfather Grey ; with illustrations.
Contributors: S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley
Publisher: Grant and Griffith, successors to John Harris
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Science -- Juvenile literature.; Technology -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile literature.
Notes: Wood-engraved plates are unsigned.  All are with captions.

Plates are the same as those used in the "Third Edition" of this title published in 1860 by Griffith and Farran.  See McLean D 0467.

"I have attempted in the following pages, with what success it is not for me to determine, to tell children about the Wonders of Science with which they are surrounded.  My belief is, that it is wise to cultivate a wholesome spirit of inquiry in the minds of the young--to lead them to seek knowledge--rather than to drag them to their lessons; and I hope that my stories of common household objects may be the means of directing the minds of many young people to the consideration of the toil and ingenuity, at the cost of which they enjoy so many comforts in their modern home."--Preface.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-4 at end.

MASS copy: Bound in red fine morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e. speckled red.  With pale yellow glazed endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "E. C. Spurin,  Successor to Thos. Edlin.  Juvenile Library,  & Repository,  37, New Bond Street.".