The World's Fair / Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home.

by Anonymous

YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:

PUBLISHED BY DEAN & SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE-STREET, LONDON:

COMPRISING

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,

Uniformly printed, each Country in a separate Volume; with Illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel, from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered;

COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:

ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.

BY MISS CORNER,

Author of "Questions on the History of Europe," a Sequel to Mangnall's Historical Questions, &c. &c.

The object of these Works,—peculiarly suited to Schools and Families,—is to furnish the reader with a faithful History of each Nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion, laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the people, in the various periods of their History.