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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.
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Authors
British.
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Card games.
lctgm
69162
Lithographs
Tinted
1880-1890.
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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
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N.Y. New York.
1889.
Imprint