Author: Irving, Washington, Bayard Taylor, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thoedore S. Fay, N.P. Willis, James Russell Lowell, William H. Seward, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others
Title: Knickerbocker Gallery: A Testimonial to the Editior of Knickerbocker Magazine from its Contributors
Description: New York, Samuel Hueston, 1855. First Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. Full brown morocco elaborately stamped in gilt on all aspects. xiv+15-505 pages. Forty-eight steel engravings (portraits of the editor and many of the contributors) and engraved title-page vignette. Gilt edges. Some shelfwear, spine extremities and tips rubbed, front endpaper removed, nineteenth-century bookplate, front hinge starting a bit. A very attractive volume that is itself a snapshot of a large segment of the intellectual / literary community in America during the mid-nineteenth century. Near Fine.

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