Wonder Book for Girls & Boys

Multiple artists/makers

1892

Not on view

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Title: Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, Salem, Massachusetts 1804–1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire)
Illustrator: Walter Crane (British, Liverpool 1845–1915 Horsham)
Publisher: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. (London)
Publisher: H. O. Houghton and Co. (Boston, Massachusetts)
Printer: Riverside Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Date: 1892
Medium: Illustrations: color lithographs
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 1/8 in. (23.5 x 17.3 x 2.9 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Object Number: 66.540.42
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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