The Bryant festival at "The Century".

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878--Centennial celebrations, etc.

Bryant, William Cullen.

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.

Physical Description:

88 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, mounted photographs; portraits ; 31 cm

Edition:

Illustrated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by the Century Association, 1865.

Notes:

Copyright 1864 by the Century Association.

Title page and verso printed in red and black.

Includes poems, letters, and speeches in honor of William Cullen Bryant read at his 70th birthday celebration at the Century Association, N.Y. Among those who paid tribute to Bryant were George Bancroft, president of the Century Association, Bayard Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

"Mr. Bryant's reply to Mr. Bancroft," p. 9-13, and remarks, p. 42.

The illustrations include a headpiece on p. [3] signed "Anthony-Davis NY" (apparently a collaboration between A.V.S. Anthony and J.P. Davis), photographs and engravings. Only plates 15, 16, 19 and 22 are signed; engraved by H.W. Smith, S.A. Schoff, J. Cheney, and J.B. Forrest after S.W. Rowse, C.L. Elliott, and W.R. Miller.

"Only one hundred and fifty copies printed."--Verso of t.p.

Also published in a small paper edition without illustrations. Cf. BAL 1692.

Local Notes:

Library's copy is no. 123.

Library's copy has only six leaves of plates; with several leaves detached from spine.

Cited in:

BAL 1692 (note)

OCLC:

191224899