The story of the peasant-boy philosopher, or, "The child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore"
Subtitle: (founded on the early life of Ferguson, the shepherd-boy astronomer, and intended to show how a poor lad became acquainted with the principles of natural science)
By: by Henry Mayhew
Contributors: Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894, engraver; Gilbert, John, 1817-1897, illustrator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, publishers
Published: 1856
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Boys; Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Physical sciences; Scientific recreations; Scientists
Other titles: Story of the peasant-boy philosopher; Child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore
Notes: Some illustrations engraved by H. Vizetelly after drawings by Sir John Gilbert.

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