| Creator |
McLoughlin Bros. |
| Title |
Improved authors with portraits & autographs [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York: McLoughlin Bros |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1889 |
| Date |
1889 |
| Physical Description |
1 box (68 prints): lithographs tinted with one stone; box 13 x 17 cm.(5 x 6.5 in.) |
| 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.
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| Notes |
Publication date based on copyright statement on box cover. |
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Includes "Improved Authors Directions for Playing" instruction sheet. Instructions note that the 72 cards containing the "Portrait
and Autograph of some distinguished Author, together with the titles of three [of their] different works" are to be "arranged
in 18 groups of four cards each" with the goal to get as many complete groups as possible.
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Box cover printed with gilt lettering and a decorative border. |
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Gift of Clarence Wolf. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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Housed in phase box. |
| Subject |
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 -- Portraits. |
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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 -- Portraits. |
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Burns, Robert 1759-1796 -- Portraits. |
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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Portraits. |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Portraits. |
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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 -- Portraits. |
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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 -- Portraits. |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Portraits. |
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Portraits. |
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Portraits. |
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 -- Portraits. |
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Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855 -- Portraits. |
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Taylor, Bayard 1825-1878 -- Portraits. |
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Portraits. |
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Portraits. |
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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 -- Portraits. |
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White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885 -- Portraits. |
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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 -- Portraits. |
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Authors -- American. |
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Authors -- British. |
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Card games. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Improved [P.8453] |
| Accession number |
P.8453 |
