NMLP P-034488 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

Nathaniel Hawthorne · Ticknor, Reed, and Fields (Boston) · 1851

Countless later illustrated 'gift book' reprintings of A Wonder-Book (Victorian and 20th-century) carry different illustrators' plates and publishers' names; none reproduce the original Ticknor, Reed, and Fields 1851/'52-dated first printing with the uncorrected 'lifed' misprint on page 21.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-034488 for "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034488, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).