The newest keep-sake for eighteen hundred thirty-nine; containing the speeches, circumstances, and doings of a recent benevolent convention, at the chapel of the Marlboro' house, Boston. Embellished with cuts, and views of moral machinery. / By an eminent artist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selden, R. E. (Richard Ely), 1797-1868.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social reformers--Humor.

Social reformers.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Redfield, J. H. (inscription)

Selden, R. E. (Richard Ely), 1797-1868 (autograph)

Physical Description:

iv pages, 5 unnumbered pages-9 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 13 unnumbered pages-121 pages ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Newest keep-sake for 1839

Best account of the speeches, doings, &c., of a recent benevolent convention, at the chapel of the Marlboro' House, Boston.

Newest keep-sake for thirty-nine

Place of Publication:

Boston. : Printed by order of the convention., 1839.

Notes:

"The 'cuts' are metaphorical ones, and the 'views' mental views."--Introduction.

Attributed to R.E. Selden in Checklist Amer. imprints.

A satire on abolitionists, teetotalers, Grahamites, and other moral reformers.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to J.H. Redfield with the respects of the author R.E. Selden.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints, 18468

OCLC:

166598756