A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Hawthorne, Nathaniel - 1893

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin & Company. Very Good+. 1893. 1st Trade Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This is a 1st Trade Edition thus - with illustrations by Walter Crane. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is missing the accompanying scarce dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning wear and fraying to the spine ends of the book cover. The Spine and spine joints, along with portions of the front and rear covers have some toning / and foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are 18 full page, full color illustrations, along with a full page, full color frontis, by Walter Crane. Also illustrated throughout with monochrome head and tailpieces by Crane. All the tissue guards are present, though several have noticeable foxing. "The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view. A great freedom of treatment was necessary to his plan; but it will be observed by every one who attempts to render these legends malleable in his intellectual furnace, that they are marvellously independent of all temporary modes and circumstances." .