Description: THE KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY 1855 w/ 48 Author Portraits Vanishing Wilderness Press POB#56848 TITLE: The Knickerbocker gallery: a testimonial to the editor of the Knickerbocker magazine [i.e. Lewis Gaylord Clark] from its contributors. With forty-eight portraits on steel ... engraved expressly for this work. AUTHOR: [48 Prominent Authors - all contributers to Knickerbocker magazine, a literary monthly] PUBLISHER: New York: Samuel Hueston DATE: MDCCCLV [1855] EDITION: First Thus. DESCRIPTION: 2 preliminary leaves, [ix]-xiv, [15]-505 pages 49 portrait (including frontispiece) 24 cm CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Solid page and cover attachment, although back joint is cracked along 7 cm from tail (close up photo below). Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Foxing in preliminaries, toning in pastedowns, and offsetting to tissue guards and text from steel engraved plates. No marks or creases. BINDING: Full red morocco. All edges gilt. Elaborately tooled in gilt with floral borders and pictorial vignettes. Turned in cover edges with floral dentelles. Yellow pastedowns. .The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865. The circle of writers who contributed to the magazine and populated its cultural milieu are often known as the "Knickerbocker writers" or the "Knickerbocker Group". The group included such authors as William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and many others. . The Knickerbocker was devoted to the fine arts in particular with occasional news, editorials and a few full-length biographical sketches. The magazine was one of the earliest literary vehicles for communication about the United States' "vanishing wilderness." As such, The Knickerbocker may be considered one of the earliest proto-environmental magazines in the United States. AUTHORS & ENGRAVINGS IN THIS VOLUME: Engraved Title: View of the Proposed Knickerbocker Cottage Louis Gaylord Clark Washington Irving Oliver Wendell Holmes Samuel Osgood Donald G. Mtichell George H. Boker Frederick William Shelton William Cullen Bryant Bayard Taylor Epes Sargent William Pitt Palmer William H. C. Hosmer Donald Macleod John G. Saxe Edward P. Mitchell Charles Astor Bristed Frederick S. Cozzens James T. Fields John W. Francis George P. Morris Henry Theodore Tuckerman Thomas Ward P. Hamilton Myers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry J. Brent Theodore S. Fay J. L. McConnel Charles G. Leland George D. Prentice J. M. Legare R. S. Chilton T. B. Thorpe Richard B. Kimball Park Benjamin Samuel S. Cox Henry R. Schoolcraft Robert T. Conrad George Wood Rufus W. Griswold Nathaniel Parker Willis Charles G. Eastman Alfred B. Street Richard Henry Stoddard William H. Steward George H. Clark Charles f. Briggs John T. Irving Fitz-Greene Halleck Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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Binding: Fine Binding
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Samuel Hueston
Special Attributes: First Thus, Illustrated, Luxury Edition
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Topic: Ecology, Environment
Year Printed: 1855
