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Title: The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
Description: Washington, DC, Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1838. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter burgundy calf with gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. 398pp, 136pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations (1 foldout). Very good overall. Some edgewear and board-rubbing to binding, with lightly-shellacked spine; text block tight and with light age toning and occasional minor foxing; minor dampstaining to pastedown corners. Attractive third volume of this political and literary combo "Containing the Political and Literary portions of the Numbers Published in September, October, November, and December, 1838." Founded in 1837 and surviving until 1859, the "Democratic Review" as it's usually known championed Jacksonian Democracy and became quite influential in political circles. Even more so, it was a literary vehicle and published more Nathaniel Hawthorne pieces than any other magazine of his day, as well as contributions from J. Fenimore Cooper, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Fanny Kemble, Walt Whitman and others of note. Among the contributors to this third volume are Mrs. L.H. Sigourney (poem "Return of the Parents" and "Farewell to a Rural Residence"), the anonymous "Romance of American History -- No. 11" (which owner Childs -- see below -- identifies in pencil as JH Ingraham), Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Chippings with a Chisel," "Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Cilley" and "Tales of a Province-House No. III") and William Cullen Bryant (poem "The Death of Schiller"). Appended after the four issues are "The Monthly Historical Register" for 1 January 1838 and the "Congressional Record" (for 4 December 1837 through 9 July 1838). This copy bears the huge, pencilled ownership signature on title page of "C. Childs" -- Chandler Childs, a Dubuque pioneer and journalist who was elected treasurer of the Dubuque Early Settlers' Association when it was established in 1865; over several months in 1857 Childs published essays on thirty-five early settlers that were published in the "Dubuque Daily Republican" and then in 1984 were gathered and published in hardbound book form. From the collection of William B. Allison (1829-1908), the powerful Iowa Republican who, as U.S. senator from that state (1873-1908), was one of the "big four" who controlled the Senate; as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for most of those years, he championed tariff legislation and co-authored the Bland-Allison Act of 1878; as member of the Senate Finance Committee he was often courted by U.S. presidents to hold cabinet positions. Late 19th century bookplate on front pastedown notes: "Carnegie-Stout Free Library / Dubuque, Iowa. / Gift of / Hon. W.B. Allison" and until deaccessioned was part of Allison's non-circulating collection at his hometown public library across the street from his Dubuque residence. Notes Leland L. Sage in his 1956 biography "William Boyd Allison: A Study in Practical Politics," Allison owned "hundreds of books on government, economics, history, banking, finance, and the tariff.. An omnivorous reader, Allison doubtless read most of these volumes, if only for relaxation from the strain that accompanied his efforts to solve the many problems facing the Nation...
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Title: The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
Description: Washington, DC, Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1838. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter burgundy calf with gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. 398pp, 136pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations (1 foldout). Very good overall. Some edgewear and board-rubbing to binding, with lightly-shellacked spine; text block tight and with light age toning and occasional minor foxing; minor dampstaining to pastedown corners. Attractive third volume of this political and literary combo "Containing the Political and Literary portions of the Numbers Published in September, October, November, and December, 1838." Founded in 1837 and surviving until 1859, the "Democratic Review" as it's usually known championed Jacksonian Democracy and became quite influential in political circles. Even more so, it was a literary vehicle and published more Nathaniel Hawthorne pieces than any other magazine of his day, as well as contributions from J. Fenimore Cooper, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Fanny Kemble, Walt Whitman and others of note. Among the contributors to this third volume are Mrs. L.H. Sigourney (poem "Return of the Parents" and "Farewell to a Rural Residence"), the anonymous "Romance of American History -- No. 11" (which owner Childs -- see below -- identifies in pencil as JH Ingraham), Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Chippings with a Chisel," "Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Cilley" and "Tales of a Province-House No. III") and William Cullen Bryant (poem "The Death of Schiller"). Appended after the four issues are "The Monthly Historical Register" for 1 January 1838 and the "Congressional Record" (for 4 December 1837 through 9 July 1838). This copy bears the huge, pencilled ownership signature on title page of "C. Childs" -- Chandler Childs, a Dubuque pioneer and journalist who was elected treasurer of the Dubuque Early Settlers' Association when it was established in 1865; over several months in 1857 Childs published essays on thirty-five early settlers that were published in the "Dubuque Daily Republican" and then in 1984 were gathered and published in hardbound book form. From the collection of William B. Allison (1829-1908), the powerful Iowa Republican who, as U.S. senator from that state (1873-1908), was one of the "big four" who controlled the Senate; as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for most of those years, he championed tariff legislation and co-authored the Bland-Allison Act of 1878; as member of the Senate Finance Committee he was often courted by U.S. presidents to hold cabinet positions. Late 19th century bookplate on front pastedown notes: "Carnegie-Stout Free Library / Dubuque, Iowa. / Gift of / Hon. W.B. Allison" and until deaccessioned was part of Allison's non-circulating collection at his hometown public library across the street from his Dubuque residence. Notes Leland L. Sage in his 1956 biography "William Boyd Allison: A Study in Practical Politics," Allison owned "hundreds of books on government, economics, history, banking, finance, and the tariff.. An omnivorous reader, Allison doubtless read most of these volumes, if only for relaxation from the strain that accompanied his efforts to solve the many problems facing the Nation...
Keywords: Americana Magazines
Price: US$ 195.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51064
- Book number: 51064
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