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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gift books.
- Genre:
- Gift books -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Johnson, Adaline S. (autograph) (Gift Book Collection copy 1)
- Physical Description:
- iv pages, 7 unnumbered pages-300 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, [1845]
- Contents:
- A gleam of sunshine / Henry W. Longfellow
- The schoolmaster's progress / Mrs. Kirkland
- The wounded vulture / Anne C. Lynch
- The power of an "injured look" / N.P. Willis
- Going home / C.P. Cranch
- The necklace / Anne C. Lynch
- The purloined letter / Edgar A. Poe
- To Columbus dying / W.H. Furness
- The moral of Goslyne Greene, or, The man that was born to a fortune / Joseph C. Neal
- The poet's apology / R.W. Emerson
- The Stuyvesant pear-tree / Mrs. Ellet
- The rabbit-catching
- Dirge / R.W. Emerson
- The inn at Cransac / W.H. Furness
- Song of the angels / F.H. Hedge
- Evening flowers / Mrs. L.H. Sigourney
- A prairie jumbie / Charles Fenno Hoffman
- The night-blooming ceres / H.T. Tuckerman
- Peter Petrolius, or, The man that was born in the Crooked Street / Edmund C. Watmough
- On a picture of Harvey Birch / Anne C. Lynch
- The giant's coffin, or, The feud of Holt and Houston / author of "The yemasse," etc.
- The roman girl / C.P. Cranch
- Stanzas / Ernest Helfenstein
- The dead guest
- The hemlock tree / Henry W. Longfellow
- Washington crossing the Alleghany / Anne C. Lynch
- Leaves from the diary of a recluse.
- Notes:
- Publication date supplied from Heartman, and Faxon.
- Second edition; "Copyrighted 1844. A second edition was published without date on title or copyright date" and "5 Cheney pl. added".--Cf. Heartman, and Faxon.
- Engraved title page undated, no printed title, no list of plates; frontispiece and engraved title vignette vary from first printing.
- Includes contributions by Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Hoffman, and Simms.
- Local Notes:
- Gift Book Collection copy 1 has the autograph of Adaline S. Johnson on the rear free endpaper.
- Gift Book Collection copy 2 imperfect: title leaf wanting.
- Cited in:
- Faxon, F. W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 309 (note)
- Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, p. 88-89
- Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 126
- Contains:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Purloined letter.
- Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 1806-1884. Prairie jumbie.
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Giant's coffin.
- OCLC:
- 140707818
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