Extraordinary men
Subtitle: their boyhood and early life
By: by William Russell, Esq
Contributors: Portch, Julian, -1865, illustrator; Cooke, Nathaniel, issuing body; Dalziel Brothers; Savill and Edwards; Leighton Son & Hodge
Edition: Second edition, revised and augmented.
Series: National illustrated library -- [v. 27]; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; National illustrated library -- [v. 27].; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Nathaniel Cooke
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Young men; Biography; Boys
Notes: Engravings signed: Julian Portch and Dalziel.

Publisher's advertisements at end of text (Nathaniel Cooke) and on endpapers (H. John Ingram & Co.).

Revision of "the first impression ... with three additional youth-histories--those of Richter, Sheridan, and Cobbett"--Preface.

"With numerous portraits & illustrative engravings."

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Michael Angelo; title: Martin Luther; title: Shakspere; title: Oliver Cromwell -Moliére; title: Blaise Pascal; title: The Duke of Marlborough; title: Peter the Great; title: Franklin; title: Mirabeau; title: Mozart; title: Sir Samuel Romilly; title: Nelson; title: Robert Burns -Sir Thomas Lawrence; title: Wilkie; title: Napoleon Bonaparte; title: Lord Byron; title: The Dukeof Wellington; title: Sir Robert Peel; title: Louis Philippe; title: Dr. William Ellery Channing; title: William Cobbett; title: Sheridan; title: Jean Paul Richter.