63 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm. Attributed to Mrs. Burden by the University of Chicago Library in NUC pre-1956. Each work has separate title page. Pagination includes eight wood-engraved plates. Hand-colored wood engravings set in creme-tinted frames. Series title transposed from head of title page. Deep red bead grain cloth; boy and girl seated, reading, with dog and rose bush in background, all in gilt, all within leaf and triple rule border, all blindstamped; front cover repeated on back cover in blind; climbing boy and girl reading with leaf design and lettering on spine in gilt. Yellow endpapers. With: Short tales / edited by Sarah Jane Hale. [New York] : McLoughlin Bros., 1860. Little boys & girls library.