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My thirty years out of the Senate / by Major Jack Downing.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Seba, 1792-1868.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satire, American.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865--Humor.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1860.
- Physical Description:
- 458, [2] p. [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Major Jack Downing's letters
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Derby & Jackson, 1860. (Oaksmith & Co., printer and stereotypers); (Weeks & Co., binders)
- Notes:
- A collection of letters and "dockyments" which appeared in the Portland (Me.) Daily Courier (and later the National Intelligencer of Washington) from Jan. 1830 to the close of the administration of Pres. Franklin Pierce in the mid-1850s, satirizing politics in Maine and in the United States.
- Illustrated added t.p.: Major Jack Downing's letters.
- Preface signed: Seba Smith.
- "Illustrated with sixty-four original and characteristic engravings on wood."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Wright 2273 is 1st ed. (1859).
- Athenaeum copy: BAL 18405 is 1st ed. (1859).
- Cited in:
- Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 50
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