The Bryant festival at "The Century".

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)

Series:

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

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.

Bryant, William Cullen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p., [23] leaves of plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

Illustrated ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Century Association, 1865.

Notes:

Includes poems, letters, and speeches in honor of William Cullen Bryant read at his 70th birthday celebration at the Century Association, N.Y. Among those who paid tribute to Bryant were George Bancroft, president of the Century Association, Bayard Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

"Mr. Bryant's reply to Mr. Bancroft," p. 9-13, and remarks, p. 42.

The illustrations include a headpiece on p. [3] signed "Anthony-Davis NY" (apparently a collaboration between A.V.S. Anthony and J.P. Davis), photographs and engravings. Only plates 15, 16, 19 and 22 are signed; engraved by H.W. Smith, S.A. Schoff, J. Cheney, and J.B. Forrest after S.W. Rowse, C.L. Elliott, and W.R. Miller.

Copyright 1864 by the Century Association.

"Only one hundred and fifty copies printed."--T.p. verso.

Title page and verso printed in red and black.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 54137.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG97-B2895

OCLC:

368024793