(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder-Book For Girls and Boys. Frontispiece and 6 engraved illustrations after designs by Hammat Billings. 8vo, publisher's brownish-rose cloth stamped in blind surrounding oval gilt ornament on covers, gilt-lettered on spine; all edges gilt; slight lean, spine and narrow portion of adjacent covers faded, scattered light foxing to preliminaries and endleaves, front endpapers with owner's neat ink inscription. first edition in original extra-gilt binding. BAL 7606; Parley to Penrod page 6. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852