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[BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN]. WILSON, JAMES GRANT. Bryant and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers, New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert 1886. 2 vols., large 8vo, burgundy crushed red levant morocco gilt, covers with gilt fillet borders and small cinquefoils and dots at corners, gilt spines, green watered silk doublures and endpages, g.e., by Curtis Walters, minute traces of rubbing. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with approximately 68 original manuscripts, letters and documents, plus 174 engraved or etched portraits and views, each leaf of text, manuscript or illustration carefully inlaid to a larger sheet within a ruled red border.
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Manuscripts and documents written or signed by W.C. Bryant (ALS, 1850, thanks for verses), John Quincy Adams (partial DS), J.A. Garfield (clipped signature), Parke Godman (ALS, 1874), Richard H. Dana, Julia Ward Howe, Lydia H.Sigourney (ALS, 1852), E.C. Stedman, H.W. Beecher, U.S. Grant (signature), Henry Clay (ALS, 1838), Edward Everett, Robert Peel, Washington Irving (ALS, 1850, 2 pages), W. Gilmore Simms (ALS, 1850), Thomas Campbell (fragmentary ALS), Martin Van Buren (ALS, 2pp.), Mary Russell Mitford, C.F. Adams, Josiah Quincy, Charles Wilkes, D. Webster, Fitz-Greene Halleck, John Ruskin, John P. Kennedy, N.P. Willis, Edwin Booth, Bret Harte, W.D. Howells, W.T. Sherman (ALS, 2pp.,1891), John Hay (envelope), George Bancroft, Nathanial Webster (ANS, 1836), Albert Galltin, Richard Grant White, Horace Greeley (ALS, 1872), John Burroughs and others.
Provenance: Roderick Terry, bookplates. (2)
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Manuscripts and documents written or signed by W.C. Bryant (ALS, 1850, thanks for verses), John Quincy Adams (partial DS), J.A. Garfield (clipped signature), Parke Godman (ALS, 1874), Richard H. Dana, Julia Ward Howe, Lydia H.Sigourney (ALS, 1852), E.C. Stedman, H.W. Beecher, U.S. Grant (signature), Henry Clay (ALS, 1838), Edward Everett, Robert Peel, Washington Irving (ALS, 1850, 2 pages), W. Gilmore Simms (ALS, 1850), Thomas Campbell (fragmentary ALS), Martin Van Buren (ALS, 2pp.), Mary Russell Mitford, C.F. Adams, Josiah Quincy, Charles Wilkes, D. Webster, Fitz-Greene Halleck, John Ruskin, John P. Kennedy, N.P. Willis, Edwin Booth, Bret Harte, W.D. Howells, W.T. Sherman (ALS, 2pp.,1891), John Hay (envelope), George Bancroft, Nathanial Webster (ANS, 1836), Albert Galltin, Richard Grant White, Horace Greeley (ALS, 1872), John Burroughs and others.
Provenance: Roderick Terry, bookplates. (2)