Tales of my Father
By: by the Rev. J. Young ...
Contributors: Engleheart, Timothy Stansfield, 1803-1879.; Darton and Clark
Publisher: Darton and Clark
Published: 1839
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Christian life -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

Preliminary steel-engraved plate is with imprints: "Painted by A. Scheffer" and "Engraved by T. S. Engleheart".  Plate is with caption.

"Whatever the age, circumstances, or attainments of readers, properly called juvenile, now may be, there are publications in abundance furnished for them, and of such variety as no former age either knew or expected.  The whole tribe of nursery nonsense and foolish trash, contained in "Jack the Giant-Killer," "Tom Thumb," "The Seven Champions of Christendom," "Fairy Tales," and some few others, for bad even as they were, the variety was not great, -- have fled before a class of useful and instructive works, like darkness before the light; while a taste for reading has kept pace with the ability to read.  Yet still, those who have to mix in any degree with youth, are aware, that something of a pleasing character is required, to engage and fix their versatile attentions ... Under a full impression of this fact, the "Tales of my Father" have been written; ... A few of the present Tales have already been before the public, through the medium of a respectable juvenile periodical.  The favourable reception which they met in that form, has induced the writer to revise those already published, and to add others.  Should they be received in such a way as to warrant it, another volume will be forthcoming shortly."--Preface.

MASS copy: Bound in light green morocco blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With pastel yellow endpapers.  Lacking upper free endpaper.