Improved authors with portraits & autographs [graphic]. McLoughlin Bros. 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. 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. Publication date based on copyright statement on box cover. 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. Box cover printed with gilt lettering and a decorative border. Gift of Clarence Wolf. Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. Housed in phase box. New York: McLoughlin Bros N.Y. New York. 1889 1889 Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890. 1 box (68 prints): lithographs tinted with one stone; box 13 x 17 cm.(5 x 6.5 in.) digitool:122403 Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT albums - Improved [P.8453] P.8453