The innocents abroad, or The new pilgrim's progress; : being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : With descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the author. : With two hundred and thirty-four illustrations. / By Mark Twain, (Samuel L. Clemens.)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Contributor:

Wiliams, True.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

American Publishing Company (Hartford, Conn)., Publisher.

H.H. Bancroft and Company., Publisher.

Trowbridge, P. A., Former owner.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Description and travel.

Middle East.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- 1870.

Physical Description:

xviii, [1], 20-651, [5] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

New pilgrim's progress

Place of Publication:

Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company ; Newark, N.J. : Bliss & Co. ; Toledo, Ohio : R.W. Bliss & Co. ; Chicago, Ill. : F.G. Gilman & Co. ; Cincinnati, Ohio : Nettleton & Co. St. Louis, Mo. : F.A. Hutchinson & Co. ; Boston, Mass. : Geo. Smith & Co. ; San Francisco, Calif. : H.H. Bancroft and Company, 1870, c1869.

Notes:

Illustrations by T. W. Williams (cf. Johnson, p. 155.)

"Issued by subscription only, and not for sale in the book stores ..."

Publisher's advertisements on [5] p. at end.

First edition, but later issue with unidentified portrait of Napoleon III on p. 129 and LXI on p. 643. Cf. Blanck. Bibliography of American literature.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Three generations of book collectors," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2012.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy with bookplate inscribed: Donated to Miss P.A. Trowbridge as a Christmas gift by her pupils Charles Smith and Samuel Skinner, Dec. 25th, 1870; bound in original dark brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and gilt designs depicting an Egyptian pyramid, the Lincoln memorial, a camel, and an elephant.

Cited in:

BAL 3316