04556nkc a2200781 a 4500 000285001 20230712171735.0 kj co 010416s1889 nyunnn kneng d NEHE-1996 ppl PPL gihc McLoughlin Bros. Improved authors with portraits & autographs [graphic]. New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1889. 1 box (68 prints): lithographs tinted with one stone; box 13 x 17 cm.(5 x 6.5 in.) 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. 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. 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. 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. lctgm Authors British. lctgm Card games. lctgm 69162 Lithographs Tinted 1880-1890. gmgpc Imprint N.Y. New York. 1889. Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT albums - Improved [P.8453] P.8453 P-8453-cover Cover P-8453-instructions Instructions P-8453-1 Card 1, Thomas Bailey Aldrich P-8453-1v Card 1, verso P-8453-5 Card 5, William Cullen Bryant P-8453-9 Card 9, Robert Burns P-8453-13 Card 13, Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain" P-8453-17 Card 17, J. Fenimore Cooper P-8453-20 Card 20, Ralph Waldo Emerson P-8453-24 Card 24, James T. Fields P-8453-28 Card 28, F. Bret Harte P-8453-32 Card 32, Oliver Wendell Holmes P-8453-36 Card 36, William Dean Howells P-8453-40 Card 40, Henry W. Longfellow P-8453-43 Card 43, James Russell Lowell P-8453-47 Card 47, Samuel Rogers P-8453-51 Card 51, Bayard Taylor P-8453-55 Card 55, Alfred Tennyson P-8453-59 Card 59, Charles Dudley Warner P-8453-63 Card 63, Richard Grant White 270327 270327 000285001 ERIKA 40 20111026 1237 000285001 ERIKA 40 20111026 1303 000285001 ERIKA 40 20111026 1305 000285001 ERIKA 40 20111026 1308 000285001 ERIKA 40 20111026 1311 000285001 ERIKA 40 20111026 1615 000285001 LINDAW 40 20120419 1426 000285001 LINDAW 40 20120420 1144 000285001 ERIKA 40 20130305 1009 000285001 ERIKA 40 20180110 1626 000285001 ERIKA 40 20180110 1639 ppl N.Y. New York. 1889. Imprint