"This book is almost wholly a mere compilation; free use has been made ... of the Library of entertaining knowledge, The family library, Wilson's ornithology, Godman's natural history of North America, &c."--Note to the critics, p. [4], signed: P.P.
Compiled by Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. His Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 540.
Verso of t.p.: Stereotyped by Lyman Thurston & Co. Boston.
Sixth page numbered "viii".
Last page blank.
Plates engraved on metal. Signed: O. Petlon [sic] [i.e. Oliver Pelton?]. Wood-engravings variously signed by George Loring Brown; "Appleton" [i.e. George Washington Appleton?]; "B" [i.e. Abel Bowen?]; "JD" ; "JCC" ; and "P". Wood-engraving of the pine marten on p. 155 attributed to Albert Alden. Cf. Alden's proof-engravings scrapbook in the library of the American Antiquarian Society.
Includes index, p. [5]-viii [i.e., 6].
Tales of animals