The magnolia for 1837 / edited by Henry William Herbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858, Editor.

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Bancroft, Charles H., Publisher.

Cheney, John, 1801-1885., Engraver.

Casilear, John William, 1811-1893., Engraver.

Osborne, Milo, approximately 1810- Engraver.

Parker, George, -1868, Engraver.

Rolph, John A., 1799-1862., Engraver.

Prud'homme, John Francis Eugene, 1800-1892., Engraver.

Hinshelwood, Robert, 1812-1879, Engraver.

Smillie, James, 1807-1885., Engraver.

Dick, Archibald L., approximately 1805-approximately 1855, Engraver.

Cummings, Thomas Seir, 1804-1894., Illustrator.

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889., Illustrator.

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846., Illustrator.

Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889., Illustrator.

Hall, Ann, 1792-1863.

Durand, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886, Illustrator.

Koblenzer Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Bancroft & Holley., Publisher.

Collins, Keese & Co., Publisher.

Otis, Broaders & Co., Publisher.

G.F. Hopkins & Son., Publisher.

Bancroft & Holley., Binder.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Morocco bindings (Binding).

Embossed bindings (Binding).

Gold blocked bindings (Binding).

Gilt edges (Binding).

Signed bindings (Binding).

Gift books.

Physical Description:

352 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

The Magnolia 1837

Magnolia 1837

Place of Publication:

New-York : Bancroft & Holley : Collins, Keese & Co. ; Boston : Otis, Broaders & Co. ; New-Orleans : Charles H. Bancroft, [c1836] ([New York] : G. F. Hopkins & Son, printers)

Notes:

Added title page, engraved.

Plates engraved by J.W. Casilear, John Cheney, A.L. Dick, Robert Hinshelwood, Milo Osborne, George Parker, J.F.E. Prud'homme, J.A. Rolph, and James Smillie.

Contains "The wrath of Peter Stuyvesant," The widow's ordeal, or a judicial trial by combat," and "The Creole village, A sketch from a steamboat" by Washington Irving.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Signed binding: "Bancroft Broadway" stamped blind on each cover. Dark brown embossed morocco; covers blocked blind and with central magnolia flower blocked in gold; spine smooth, blocked and titled in gold; text edges gilt; pale yellow surface coated endpapers, now discolored.

Athenaeum copy: Entry from Sotheby catalog for a different gift book laid in.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Peter J. Koblenzer.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints, 38688

Faxon, F.W. Literary annuals, 527

Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 138

OCLC:

869008