"Following the drum" : a glimpse of frontier life / by Mrs. Vielé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vielé, Teresa Griffin, 1831 or 1832-1906, author.

Contributor:

Vielé-Griffin, Francis, 1864-1937, autographer, former owner.

Blair, J. Insley, Mrs., 1883-1951, former owner.

Craighead, Robert, printer.

Rudd & Carleton, publisher.

Belz-Niédrée, binder.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--Military life.

United States.

United States. Army. 1st Infantry.

Vielé, Teresa Griffin, 1831 or 1832-1906.

Vielé, Teresa Griffin.

Texas--Description and travel.

Texas.

Officers' spouses--Texas--Biography.

Officers' spouses.

Texas--Biography.

Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.

Frontier and pioneer life.

United States. Army.

Armed Forces--Military life.

Travel.

Genre:

Biographies.

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Vielé-Griffin, Francis, 1864-1937 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Blair, J. Insley, Mrs., 1883-1951 (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[9], 14-256, [2], 4 pages ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

[New York] : R. Creaighead, printer, Caxton Building, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street.

Place of Publication:

New York : Rudd & Carleton, 310 Broadway, MDCCCLXVIII [1868]

Notes:

The writer's husband was a lieutenant in the 1st U.S. infantry at the time, and stationed on the Texas frontier.

"Fourth issue (first edition, 1858). A unique copy with a reprinted redated title page created for [the author's] youngest son, sixteen-year-old (Egbert) Francis Griffin-Vielé, in a morocco presentation binding and slipcase by Belz-Niedrée of Paris."--Schimmel. With his dated 19th-century autograph ("Francis Griffin Vielé Souvenir d'amour de sa mere cherie - Paris 1876-") on blank leaf following front free endpapers and the gold-stamped green leather armorial bookplate ("EX LIBRIS BLAIRHAME") of Mrs. J. Insley Blair (née Natalie Bennett Knowlton) on front pastedown.

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868 by Egbert L. Vielé, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--Verso of title leaf.

"New books and new editions just published by Rudd & Carleton, 310 Broadway, New York.": Pages [1]-4 (second count).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has a few manuscript annotations in pencil or ink in text.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Cited in:

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 41

OCLC:

1300241616