Is94 t1 v. 2: Issue with two engravings, of "Cut finger" and "Troubles." Original wrappers, with flower basket vignette.

BEIN Merriam 469 copy 1: Issue with two engravings. Stamp: Property of G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass. Previously owned by Robert C. Munroe. Original yellow wrappers, with flower basket vignette.

BEIN Merriam copy 2: Issue with engraving of woman, children, and bird. Stamp: Property of G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass. Original wrappers, with flower basket vignette.

BEIN Shirley 5507: Original green wrappers, with flower basket vignette.

Text apparently adapted from Mrs. Sherwood's The history of Henry Milner.

Variant issues noted; issue in hand has a frontispiece comprised of two wood engravings bearing the captions, "The cut finger," and "Troubles of disobedience." Another issue has a frontispiece wood engraving of a woman holding a dead bird and lecturing a weeping boy and girl.

Variant states noted: One has front wrapper with "The Milner toys" at head of title. Other has title and flower basket vignette, with Merriam & Moore imprint.

Merriam & Moore published in Troy, N.Y. in 1851 only. The firm was preceded and succeeded by Merriam, Moore & Co. See Arthur J. Weise, Troy's one hundred years (Troy, N.Y., 1891), p. 397.

Wood engravings signed by Alexander Anderson.

Numbered series list, p. [4] of wrapper.

Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction.

Animal welfare > Juvenile fiction.

Juvenile literature.

Publishers' advertisements.