John Mein, a
London bookseller who had a shop in Boston. Included _The
Famous Tommy Thumb's Story Book_; _Leo the Great Giant_;
_Urax, or the Fair Wanderer_; and _The Cruel Giant,
Barbarico_.

1787. All Newbery's publications. Reprinted by Isaiah
Thomas, Worcester, Mass.

1794. _Arabian Nights. The Arabian Nights Entertainments_
.... The first American edition.... Philadelphia, H. & P.
Rice; Baltimore, J. Rice & Co., 1794. 2 vols.

1804. _Blue Beard. A New History of Blue Beard, written by
Gaffer Black Beard, for the Amusement of Little Jack Black
and his Pretty Sisters_. Philadelphia, J. Adams, 1804. 31
pp.

1819. _Rip Van Winkle_. A legend included in the works of
Washington Irving, published in London, 1819.

1823. _A Visit from St. Nicholas_. Clement Clark Moore, in
Troy _Sentinel_, Dec. 23, 1823. Written the year before for
his own family. The first really good American juvenile
story, though in verse.

1825. _Babes in the Wood_. The history of the children of
the wood.... To which is added an interesting account of the
Captive Boy. New York, N.B. Holmes. 36 pp. Plates.

1833. _Mother Goose_. The only true Mother Goose Melodies;
an exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the
original edition, published and copyrighted in Boston in
1833 by Munroe & Francis.... Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1905.
103 pp.

1836. _The Fairy Book_. With eighty-one engravings on wood,
by Joseph A. Adams. New York, Harper & Bros. 1836. 301 pp.
Introduction by "John Smith." Edited by C.G. Verplanck,
probably.

1844. _Fairy Land, and Other Sketches for Youths_, by the
author of _Peter Parley's Tales_ (Samuel G. Goodrich).
Boston, J. Munroe & Co. 167 pp. Plates, Cromo. Lith. of
Bouve & Sharp, Boston.

1848. _Rainbows for Children_, by L. Maria Child, _ed_. New
York, C.S. Francis & Co. 170 pp. 28 original sketches ... by
S. Wallin.... B.F. Childs, wood engraver: p. 8. Advertising
pages: New books published by C.S. Francis & Co., N.Y....
_The Fairy Gift and the Fairy Gem_. Four volumes of choice
fairy tales. Each illustrated with 200 fine engravings by
French artists: p. 2.

1851. _Wonder Book_, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated by
W. Crane, 60 designs, published by Houghton, 1910.

1852. _Legend