The Golden casket
Subtitle: a treasury of tales for young people
By: edited by Mary Howitt ; with illustrations by John Palmer
Contributors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887; Meteyard, Eliza, 1816-1879; Schmid, Christoph von, 1768-1854; Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881; Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885; Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880; Wildermuth, Ottilie, 1817-1877; Gozlan, Léon, 1803-1866; Armstrong, W., engraver
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: James Hogg & Sons
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Children's stories
Notes: Date from editor's preface.

Illustrations engraved and signed: W. Armstrong.

title page engraved.

Publisher's advertisement precedes text.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: The Elchester College boys / by Mrs. Wood; title: The Delft jug / by Eliza Meteyard; title: The boy and the man / from the German of Christopher von Schmidt; title: William and his teacher / by Mrs. S.C. Hall; title: The story of Luke Barnicott / by William Howitt; title: The castle east of the sun and west of the world : a story from the old Danish; title: My first cruise / by W.H.G. Kingston; title: The holidays at Barenburg Castle / by Ottilie Wildermuth; title: Some passages from the child-life of Lucy Meridyth / by the author of "An art student in Munich"; title: The touching and marvellous adventures of Prince Hempseed and his young sister / from the French of Léon Gozlan.