Mysteries of the backwoods : including character, scenery and rural sports / by T.B. Thorpe ; with a portrait of Tom Owen, the bee hunter and other original illustrations, by Felix O.C. Darley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 1815-1878.

Contributor:

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Library of humorous American works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American wit and humor.

Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, Old--Anecdotes.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Southwest, Old--Description and travel--Anecdotes.

Southwest, Old.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2], 7-190 p., [5] leaves of plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Mysteries of the backwoods

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson & Bros., [1869?] [c1865]

Notes:

Cover title: Mysteries of the backwoods by T.B. Thorpe ... with beautiful illustrations from original designs by Darley. Philadelphia, T.B. Peterson & Bros.

Added illustrated t.p.

"Library of humorous American works. With illustrations by Darley."--cover. Cf. Smither, N. Library of humorous American works: A bibliographical study, 1936, p. 57-58, where this title, first issued by Peterson in 1865, is listed as no. 13 in the series.

Some engravings by J.H. Brightly and R.S. Gilbert.

Lithographed cover signed: T. Sinclair's Lith., Philada. A. Bigot, fecit.

Publisher's advertisement for the Library of humorous American works, "Price 75 cents each," p. [4] of cover. According to Smither, the price was raised to 75 cents in 1869 when the publisher issued "the thirty-three titles accepted today as the Peterson 'Library of humorous American works.'"

Title-vignette.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 95663.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

13