The Peterkin papers /
by Lucretia P. Hale.
- Boston : James R. Osgood and Company, 1880
- 246 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
"Appeared serially as early as 1868 in Our young folks, and later, beginning in 1874, in St. Nicholas ... A continuation later collected as "The last of the Peterkins," Boston, 1886, appeared originally in St. Nicholas." Cf. Blanck. In original publisher's binding: Brown cloth with dotted-line grain over boards, title, author and design stamped in black on upper board. Spine also stamped in gold.