Letters of J. Downing, major : Downingville militia, Second brigade, to his old friend, Mr. Dwight, of the New-York advertiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Charles Augustus, 1795-1867.

Contributor:

Gordon Block Collection of Lincolniana (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American wit and humor.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Block, Gordon (donor)

Chapman (bookplate)

Barker, H.E. (Harry Ellsworth), 1862-1943 (bookseller).

Physical Description:

x, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Bros., 1834.

Notes:

Added t.-p., illustrated.

Not to be confused with "The select letters of Major Jack Downing" Philadelphia, 1834, written by Seba Smith and originally published in the Portland Courier 1830-1833, to which in the Philadelphia, 1834 edition a few of the Davis letters to the New York Daily advertiser are added by way of appendix. cf. J. Williamson, Bibliog. of ... Maine (1896) p. 448 whose Philadelphia, 1831 edition is probably a misprint for 1834.

Local Notes:

RBC copy purchased by Gordon Block from Harry E. Barker, a dealer in Lincoln artifacts. Included is a note by Barker providing evidence for Lincoln having read this title, possibly in this edition (though not this particular copy).

Cited in:

BAL 4497

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.) 831

OCLC:

60862637