Improved authors with portraits & autographs [graphic].

Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card.

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Title: Improved authors with portraits & autographs [graphic].
Creator: McLoughlin Bros., inc.
Subject: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 -- Portraits., Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 -- Portraits., Burns, Robert 1759-1796 -- Portraits., Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Portraits., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Portraits., Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 -- Portraits., Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 -- Portraits., Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Portraits., Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Portraits., Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Portraits., Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 -- Portraits., Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855 -- Portraits., Taylor, Bayard 1825-1878 -- Portraits., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Portraits., Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Portraits., Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 -- Portraits., White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885 -- Portraits., Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 -- Portraits., Authors -- American., Authors -- British., Card games -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Description: Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card.
Publisher: New York: McLoughlin Bros
Date: 1889
Type: Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890.
Format: 1 box (68 prints): lithographs tinted with one stone; box 13 x 17 cm.(5 x 6.5 in.)
Identifier: Islandora:MCCL1, digitool:122403, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - Improved [P.8453], P.8453

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