Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

Overview:

  • Title: Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
  • Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Year: 1907
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Pages: x+300
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: A Child's Dream of a Star
  • Notes:
    Fiction contents listed below (7 of 11 in the anthology) are those in the database as contents of other publications (September 2019).

    Internet Archive provides full view of a copy including original cover and endpapers: -- frontispiece and title page: "Drawn by ..." and "Decorated by Blanche Ostertag" -- text (10 stories and one poem) spans p3-300, unillustrated Ostertag decorations evidently comprise the frontispiece, which illustrates "The King of the Golden River"; the endpapers, apparently by the same hand; and possibly the front cover.

    Library of Congress record {{LCCN|07-29005}} reports a 1912 ed./printing as 300 pages with frontispiece, no other illustrations.