A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
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Overview:
- Title: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Year: 1880
- Publisher: Houghton, Osgood and Company
- Pages: viii+224
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Chimæra
- Notes:
- 2nd ed./printing by this short-lived publisher, at least, and not including its publication of the work alongside Grandfather's Chair in one omnibus among its 1879 "works of Nathaniel Hawthorne in twelve volumes"
- OCLC: 10495630 -- 19cm
- Some WorldCat libraries catalog "The Riverside Press, Cambridge" as second publisher, at least for one 1879 ed. (OCLC 226659696 and 23948849; as viii+224, 16cm)
- HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) catalogs multiple copies of Houghton, Osgood editions, 1879 and 1880, examined 2016-09-19. All but one show Houghton, Mifflin on the title page. Thus:
HDL provides full view of one copy:
- title page, p[iii], includes the only illustration and supports interpretation of "The Riverside Press, Cambridge" as second publisher
- copyright page states 1852 alone (where later Houghton Mifflin eds. state also Rose Hawthorne 1879) and "University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge"
- Preface v-vi, Contents vii-viii, and 18 sub-contents (3 each story) have head- and tail-decorations but no illustrations
- implied pagination i-viii and 9-224 from the first leaf after presumable front endpaper