New-York: J. Q. Preble, Tubbs, Nesmith, and Teall, Printers and Stereotypers, (1854 dated preface-poem); red cloth boards with gold stamped elaborate design on top board and spine, blindstamped on bottom; gilt all around, no frontis; 2.2x3.25"; 95 pp with table of contents. Small hardback. 12 stories and poems somehow fit.....
Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons; early 1870's, 1st; ivory glazed paper with elaborate gilt floral borders and title, gilt picture of Lily and her doll; on the back cover an extensive list of Nelson titles to 1870, not including this book, four full colour, full page chromolithographs on heavier paper.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Streets, no date, [1875 to 1887, probably early in this period as Wide Awake is a "New Monthly Magazine" and Babyland is not mentioned]; blue pebbled cloth spine and pictorial boards, on the top a picture of a little girl sitting.....
New York: Leavitt and Allen, no date, circa 1860's; brown pressed cloth, hand coloured illustrations, 3x4.5"; 32 pp. Small hardback. Stories for older children about daily life, and more, The Skating Party, The Arrest, The Soldiers, The Depot, Snowballing, Blind Man's Buff, The Magnetic Swan, and others. Appears to have.....
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 54 Fleet St., 1870, 1st; blue boards with black ruling on top and bottom boards and gilt title cartouche; 12 plates of fine etchings on tan background; 8x10.25"; 94 pp + 2 pp catalogue. Juvenile hardback. The story follows Charlie through the year of school.....