"With a half-title. "The author has long been of the opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view."--Preface, dated at Lenox, July 15th, 1851, p. [iii]-vi. Copyright 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne; copyright 1879 by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop; copyright 1883 and 1892 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Plates, headpieces and tailpieces printed in color by a relief process."