SOME DICKENS LINKS:
FROM:
MORE ABOUT DARLEY / COOPER:
Moore's poem was first published in 1848 in a pamphlet form... with eight illustrations by T.C. Boyd. Only two of these are known to have survived. The first BOOK by Moore was published in 1862 (Gregory, NY) ... it contained illustrations by Felix Darley.
So, Darley was at least partly responsible for how we "see" Santa Claus today. It was reported at the time that Darley's fame was responsible for selling the book as much as was the poem itself. Of course, since 1862, MANY editions of "A visit from Saint Nicholas" have been issued ... with illustrations by MANY different illustrators, including one by the more well known Thomas Nast in 1863. (Nast did do a Santa illustration in "Harper's Weekly" before Darley's illustrations appeard in 1862; Nast's St. Nick illustrations for C. Moore's book was published in 1863 ... a year after the Darley edition.)
It is interesting to note that the question of whether or not Moore was the original author of "A Visit From Saint Nicholas" is showing up more these days. A relative of (Revolutionary War Major) Henry Livingston, Jr., has many "interesting" points that she, and some scholors, say support the claim that Moore plagairized the poem. A few references to this can be found on the internet. ...Go to "a" web site with some info on this (The Darley Site webmaster has several emails from a relative of Maj. Livingston, with several 'arguments' FOR the Livingston 'case.')
The Darley Society does NOT take any position on this ... we are just advising that this claim is "out there."
Mr. Frederic Taraba, Assistant Director of Illustration House is on the Advisory Board of the "Darley Society."
This site details that Howard's mother made illustrations by Darley and other leading illustrators available to Howard in their Wilmington, DE home (Howard was 7 yrs old when Darley moved to Claymont, 7 miles to the north of his home.)
ALSO SEE "BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM, BELOW.
From "The Golden Age of Illustration ...
The Brandywine School, N.C. Wyeth & Others"
"The Brandywine School molded a generation of artists who anchored the Golden Age of Illustration. Springing from the work of Howard Pyle, America's pre-eminent illustrator, the Brandywine School was strongly influenced by the work of F.O.C. Darley and the rich history of the Brandywine Valley in Pennsylvania." It has been said that Pyle was influenced by Darley... as an artist and illustrator, but he developed his own style, unlike Darley's.
...GO TO REF. 1
"Golden Age of Illustration"
Bud Plant Illustrated Books / Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL: BEING SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY
MOUNTAIN LIFE, by Francis Parkman, Jr. New York, George P. Putnam, 1849.
Wood engravings with tint-block backgrounds: 2 plates, frontispiece and
pictorial title, engraved by Childs after Darley. See: "The California and
Oregon Trail: A Bibliographical Study," by James E. Walsh in "The New
Colophon, 1950. The first printing, 2 parts, wrappers, has no plates; also
The area is 'under construction' ... and will be added to, AND refined in the next few weeks. Please be patient, as both of us working on this are doing it as volunteers, and 'as time permits.'// Editor
It is a big, and continuing undertaking; your comments and upgrades are 'encouraged.'
Antiques
prints of the American West page 2, "Goldwashing"
Page 513
cat0307.html
see #138
University of Michigan Making of America
Page 513 in this is "Italian Street Scene" - the cover.
To print these put page set up at 50%. Do a print preview and then print.
York Institute -
Pilgrim's Progress
Drovers Halt
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Brandywine Illustrators,
Maxfield Parrish, Arth
"At the outset of his career Darley had no rival in the field of book
illustration. His name, featured on the title page with that of the author
during the first decade of his career, was later grouped on title pages with
the names of other illustrators who began to meet the increasing demand for
pictures in books. The last half of his career he shared his popularity with
the great illustrators of the rising generation."
"Thus in "Mr. Bodley Abroad", 1881, Darley is listed as an illustrator with
Winslow Homer. In the anthology "Lyrics of Home-Land", 1882, his name
appears in the list of illustrators with Winslow Homer and Howard Pyle. In
the large two-volume "Poetical Works of Longfellow", 1883, he was listed as
an illustrator with Abbey and Frost."
"The reproduction of his work in association with that of Homer, Abbey, Pyle,
Frost, and Remington in these volumes is sufficient not only to show his
undiminished popularity, but also to reveal his relative importance as an
illustrator. He ranks with these, among the greatest of American book
illustrators."
"The Book Illustrations of Felix Octavius Carr Darley" by Theodore Bolton
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 18, 1951
Volume 61 Part I
The Gallery: After the Bear Hunt
Post-1800 Americana at
The Philadelphia Print S
Felix O.C. Darley. Two sets of illustrations issued by the American Art
Union. New York, 1848-49. Six etchings by Darley in each; prints ca. 8 x
11. With original printed paper covers. Some typical wear, but very good
condition.
BOOK LOOK RARE AND SPECIAL
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK CA
385. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. EVANGELINE. BOBBS MERRILL. 1905. 1ST
CHRISTY. HARDCOVER. 1ST HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. 4TO. WEAR T/SPINE.
GOOD PLUS. $175.00. (find a book no. 820162).
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Georgetown
Special Collections Main Menu
Darley, Felix Octavius (1822 - 1888)
After a Day's Sport in the Sierra's (1888)
209mm x 284mm .
No picture
This is a link to the Georgetown University Library
Put in the where to see Darley's works part. They may only have one Darley
but they have a lot of other stuff.
"Among the authors represented were Frank Forester, William T. Porter, J.J.
Hooper, W.T. Thompson, J.B. Jones, and W. Gilmore Simms. Although the
illustrations which Darley drew for their work are not always well
reproduced, when the wood engravers took care with the plates his
illustrations for these authors are comparable with the book designs which
Gavarni produced at this time in France." (Bolton)
These pictures are great. The captions slightly risque but charming.
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Link to where to see Darley's works.
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ARLIS/NA
: Guide to the World Wide Web : Art Pu
ARLIS/NA
: Guide to the World Wide Web : Art Pu
N.C. Wyeth's Studio
The Alphabetical
Listing
Winterthur Museum,
Garden & Library
VICTORIA archives -- April 1999, week 3 (#44)
Canvas
Creations - Frederic Remington Biography
Artcyclopedia: Monthly
Spotlight
Jamestown Lounge
Company
Galerie acadienne
"If we turn to the area of Victorian studies, the grandparent of all
nineteenth century resources on the Web must surely be George F.
Landow's
The Victorian Web Overview
Let me chart just one example of how information "moves" on a Web site
like Landow's. I began one session at the site by reading Landow's own
essay on "Rogue Gothic Architecture." From there I linked to "Victorian
Railways Stations," a lexia that begins with modern photographs and ends
with wider reflections on the relation between aesthetics and utility in
Victorian culture. A subsequent link to William Morris designs still in
production (outside The Victorian Web) then brought me back into
Landow's Web at a Rossetti Home Page, where I had hot button links to
"Literary Relations," "Themes," "Symbols," "Genre," "Religion and
Philosophy," "Visual Arts," "Biography," "Science," and more. Each
button jumps to a hyperdocument written by Landow, his students, or
other scholars (sometimes excerpted from printed texts). I also easily
linked to articles from Punch, images from Beardsley or Rossetti, and,
outside the Victorian Web, to the much more extensive
The
Rossetti Archive
Yes, this evidently happened, although I don't know how low-cut the dress
was. I've also seen a description of it as merely "exposing her neck and
arms." Smith came to the feminist movement from a "celebrity" position as
a famous writer in NYC--the kind illustrated by the best, yes, but also the
kind followed in the society pages in the late 40s. Coming from there, she
was unencumbered by an "activist" past (she'd never been pelted with rocks,
that is, at any anti-slavery functions like Lydia Maria Child and others),
and thus she "infiltrated" branches of society that didn't see a feminist
coming to lecture. In 1851 she wrote quite an arch book called "Hints on
Dress and Beauty," and made that the subject of her first public lecture.
Anyway, thanks very much for the e-cite.
At 07:44 AM 4/24/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Upstate New York
>and the Women's Rights Movement
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>Letter from Paulina Wright Davis to Emma R. Coe, August 17, 1851.
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>Davis writes that she does not intend to attend the upcoming Bloomer
>Festival in New York. "Though the reform in dress is important it is but
>a fragment of the great work."
>She refers to women like Elizabeth Oaks Smith, whose beauty will "give
>grace and elegance to our movement." Susan B. Anthony, unimpressed by
>Smith's elegance, prevented her from presiding over the 1852 Syracuse
>convention because Smith was wearing a fancy, low-cut, white dress.
David Hunter
Strother
Victorian Events Calendar
Gavarni
Paul Gavarni on
the Internet (Artcyclopedia)
American Victorian
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(Added 5/4/99):
On Tuesday, 11 May, the Book Arts Press (BAP) opens the next in its ongoing
series of exhibitions with undergraduate curators:
The curator is Elliot Tally '99, a UVa history major who is interested in a
career in public history. For the past two years, he has worked part-time
in Alderman Library, where he supervises the Early American Fiction
digitization project.
Tally's exhibition, mounted by the BAP in cooperation with the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation (which owns and operates Monticello), will be
on view in the Dome Room of the Rotunda throughout the summer.
As part of the festivities surrounding the opening of the show, the BAP
announces a Jefferson paper airplane flying contest on the Lawn on
Tuesday, 11 May, from 3 - 5 pm. The contest is open to all those with a UVa
affiliation (and also to members of their immediate families). A total of
$150 in cash prizes will be awarded.
For more about the contest, consult the Book Arts Press's Web site:
http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/exhibitions/current.shtml
where downloadable instructions for making a particularly distance-worthy
Jefferson paper airplane may be found.
"Two for a Nickel" features a wide variety of items that use the appeal of
the name, or face, or residence of Thomas Jefferson for information,
publicity, or consumer purposes. The practice of using celebrities to
advertise products, services, and events has been used for hundreds of
years by an endless number of entrepreneurs. "Two for a Nickel" documents
this practice through the display of a collection of ephemeral objects.
*Ephemera* may be defined as objects that are meant to be thrown away after
use. Items such as brochures, invitations to events, paper placemats,
menus, wooden ice cream spoons, license plates, and whiskey bottles fit
this description comfortably - but what about things that began their
existence as throw-aways but have now turned into collectibles? The
definition of ephemera must become far more complex. This exhibition
includes a surprising variety of ephemeral objects which have evolved (or
are in the process of evolving) into serious collectors' items: ashtrays,
bank checks, coin banks, beer cans, beer bottles, bells, bobelles,
bookmarks, booklets, bowls, busts, calendars, Christmas tree ornaments,
cigar bands, cigarette souvenirs, club soda, coins, cologne bottles,
coloring books, copies of the Declaration of Independence, dolls, encased
pennies, erasers, food containers, fuse boxes, games, gift catalogs,
"Jefferson" cups, jigger glasses, keychains, letter openers, magazines,
magnets, matchbooks, medallions, milk bottles, milk caps, models, money
clips, mugs, nail clippers, needle threaders, newsletters, oversize
nickels, paper dolls, paperweights, patches, pencils, pendants, pens, Pepsi
bottles, phonograph albums, pins, pitchers, plates, playing cards,
postcards, posters, pressed pennies, prints, rulers, shopping bags, shoe
mitts, shower caps, snow globes, spoons, stamps, sticker books,
switchplates, tea towels, thimbles, tickets, trade cards, model trains,
T-shirts, $2 bills, wine bottles, writing tablets - the list goes on and
on. Examples of all of these items (and a good many others) are represented
in "Two for a Nickel."
There are many counties and towns named after Jefferson or Monticello. The
majority of the 50 states have a Jefferson County, and there at least nine
U.S. cities, towns, or villages named Jeffersons - plus five
Jeffersonvilles, two Jefferson Cities, a Jefferson Township, a Jefferson
Valley, a Jefferson Village, and at least twelve Monticellos. In
preparation for this exhibition, curator Elliot Tally wrote to
administrators in about three dozen of these counties and towns, begging
for examples of local Jeffersonian ephemera.
Elliot Tally is looking for additional examples of such
Monticello/Jefferson material; if you know of local establishments with
these words in their names and have access to their stationery, business
cards, brochures, newsletters, or other printed matter, we would be very
glad to have copies, which should be sent to Elliot Tally, Book Arts Press,
114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
Notable objects in "Two for a Nickel" include:
The exhibition will be up during Rare Book School's 1999 summer session; it
closes on October 25th. An illustrated catalog of the show will be
published later this month.
Terry Belanger : University Professor : University of Virginia
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Some gripping passages from The Quaker City.
The Quaker City; Or, the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life,
Mystery, and Crime George Lippard: University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 0870239716
Paperback available from a large online bookseller.
Darley did an illustration for the 1845 edition which is reproduced in this
edition. We will soon have it on the Web page.
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" T.H. Scherman
See years 1846-1849 in Elizabeth Oaks Smith page: Chronology
http:www.neiu.edu/~thscherm/eos/chrono.htm
"Further research into Elizabeth Oaks Smith revealed the following:
.. Notice of publication of Salamander
From Making of America Series. Go there now and open up the actual notice of
publication of Salamander in The Southern Literary Messenger, December 1848.
Click on p.764. Open image and scan down and to the right.
...Announcement of Salamander as a
Gift Book
Southern Literary Messenger
Meridith McGill wrote:
"both Poe's and Hawthorne's careers crucially depended on the success of
printed formats that owed their success to engravings, fashion plates, and
other illustrations."
"I am interested both in recovering the general graphic enrivonrment in which
antebellum fiction circulated and was read, and in exploring the peculiar
relation between word and image that was established by the use of steel
engravings in gift books and illustrated magazines."
Meridith:
I have been researching FOC Darley and have found 17 references to books
illustrated by him as 'gift books', including Salamander referenced above.
Is the paper you presented to the Antiquarian Society about gift books going
to be published? Have you included any references to Darley?
I would love to put a 'gift book' link on our Darley Web page - still under
major construction but growing apace.
...Gift
Book and Darley - Making of America
Search results.
Carol Digel, Wilmington, Delaware
LoracLegid@aol.com
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1978 Exhibit Catalog, Delaware Art Museum
Illustrated by Darley; an exhibition of original drawings by the American
book illustrator Felix Octavious Carr Darley 1822-1888. Wilmington, DE, USA
Delaware Art Museum. 4 May-18 June 1978. exhibition catalogue.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
Poe was a key person in getting Felix "started" as an illustrator (1843). He first "recognized" the great potential that Felix had, when at age 21, Felix submitted work to Poe for his Philadelphia "Saturday Museum" magazine. (A Poe quote can be found elsewhere in the Darley Web Site.) Some net ref. are:
DICKENS' CONNECTIONS:
While 'most' of Dickens works were done by his "English" illustrators, Felix became known as his "American" illustrator. Some of our research indicates that Felix did "a few" English works, and MANY American MAGAZINES and editions of
Dickens books done here in America. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "introduced" Felix to Dickens in 1867, (per a letter at the Cambridge, MA Historical Society) after Felix had become known for his Dickens works; we believe that the Dickens visit to Darley's home in Delaware was in early 1868, a few months after that dinner meeting "introduction":
OTHER DICKENS LINKS
... the $5,200 Dicken's "book of the month" book...with Darley & others
ABOUT FENIMORE COOPER'S WORKS
"As you well know, Darley must be considered the most important of the
many artists who have provided illustrations for Cooper's novels, in part
because -- unlike most others -- he illustrated all 32 of Cooper's novels,
and part because those illustrations (first appearing in the Townsend edition
of 1859-61) were so widely copied in the decades that followed.
Hugh C. MacDougall
Secretary/Treasurer,
James Fenimore Cooper Society
8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326
Send mail to The Cooper Society
CLEMENT C. MOORE's "A vist from Saint Nicholas".
Moore did his famous poem in 1822.. Felix was one year old. Moore did the poem for his family (of 7 children) and was not interested in publishing it. Our research indicates that Moore got the "visual" Santa from Washington Irving's "A History of New York" published in 1809.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "The Scarlet Letter"
Illustrated by Darley....GO TO Univ. of New Hamp.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"GENERAL ITEMS" ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS:
FROM "APPLETONS JOURNAL"
"ILLUSTRATION HOUSE" (NY, NY)
A good 'illustration' source and place to buy art. ...GO THERE
HOWARD PYLE
While deveoping a different style, in his youth, Howard Pyle was influenced by Darley. ...Go to a Pyle Net Site
ART MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS:
...GO TO REF. 2"American Illustration" (ref: Darley, Pyle, Wyeth)
REF. 3Brandywine River
Museum's Collections
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY DARLEY & 'prints'..."FOR SALE":
Linked here as examples of sales prices.
OTHER SOCIETIES, EXCLUDING E.A. POE (done earlier)
OTHER LINKS
3809 Laguna Ave / Palo Alto, CA 94306-2629 USA
Ph. 650-493-1191 Fx. 650-493-1145
...GO THERE (Use "back" to return here)
...GO TO REF. #1Darley, SEE 3rd row UP, bottom left side
This next section is for the more serious "searcher" on Darley AND other Art subjects.
Our goal is to make this page an easy and complete internet guide to (1) F.O.C. Darley and writers for which he illustrated, (2) Illustrative Art in general, and (3) Art of all types and interest in Delaware.
MORE LINKS: "DARLEY AND DIRECT DARLEY RELATED"
ILLUSTRATED POEMS, by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney. Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1849.
Steel engravings: 16 plates, 15 after Darley, engraved by Hinshelwood,
Dougal, Cushman, and others. (Bolton)
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based at Brown University. This WWW site traces
its beginnings to 1985, when it was developed as a resource for teaching
and scholarship in specific Brown University courses. Since then it has
grown to include hundreds of lexias (documents) as well as links to
other hypertext webs such as Dickens Web and In Memoriam Web. The site
provides a wide range of textual material, all edited by Landow, but
added to by numerous contributors, link providers, and technical support
staff. This site has helped to provide a model for other emerging Web
projects because of its accurate information, clear graphics, useful
interface, and effective links.
produced by Jerome McGann at the Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. The point of such a
"surf" is that accurate and useful information is made available to me
with an ease and a completeness that would be almost unimaginable in a
traditional library setting. The drawbacks of such a site are few, but
important to note: astonishing amounts of time and energy have had to be
invested by Landow and his assistants on the production end, student
work has had to be revised for accuracy and consistency, and problems of
network access plague some links ("the server is down or was not
responding," "access denied from this server"). Nevertheless,
Victorianists and their students would benefit from this resource for ye
ars to come even if its development was to halt today. The fact that The
Victorian Web is, in fact, continually expanding and changing reminds us
that new models of "knowing" (dynamic, flexible, collective) will
accompany our future uses of technological tools."
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Ray, I had the China Trade exhibit posted on this calendar.
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"Two for a Nickel:
Ephemera Concerning Thomas Jefferson and Monticello"
Book Arts Press : 114 Alderman Library : Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 804/924-8851 FAX: 804/924-8824 email: belanger@virginia.edu
URL: http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/
Forwarded to you by Carol Digel, LoracLegid@aol.comThe Quaker City
When W. T. Lhamon, Jr. of Florida State University wrote to inquire about a
catalog for the current FOC Darley exhibit I asked him about his interest in
Darley. "My interest in Darley comes from the references to his greatness in
George Lippard's The Quaker City, which he also illustrated."
CHAPTER FIFTH
"A dark and ill-omened smile rests upon the lip of the man, as he
surveys the beauty of the insensible woman, while a gentle flush, tinting her
cheeks, and warming over her bosom, betrays her return to consciousness. The
minor details of the scene, tell the story of the picture. In her extended
hand, she grasps a letter, with a convulsive grasp like that of death. His
hat and cane and gloves, flung carelessly on the carpet, his cloak thrown
over a chair, and the door of the chamber, hanging wide open, all tell the
story of his sudden entrance and his surprise. The back ground of the scene
is supplied by the furniture and the crimson-hangings of the chamber, varied
by pictures in massive frames, and mellowed into gentle twilight by the dim
beams of the chandelier. Altogether, the picture is an effective one, worthy
the genius of an artist who has a soul to feel, and a hand to execute; like
Darley, for instance, whose pencil is a mine of unwrought gold."
CHAPTER EIGHTH
"Certainly they were a pair of beauties. As squatting in low stools
on either side of the fire, they looked up in their master's face, their
hideous visages assumed an expression of infernal glee. Give us a picture of
the scene, Darley. Sharpen your pencil, and select your best piece of
Bristol board. This is a study worthy of your genius. We are looking at the
scene from the dark corner of the room. The light flares from yonder table,
in the background, Devil-Bug stands in front of the fire; his negroes squat
on either side. Musquito with his back toward us, extends his left hand and
holds the iron between the bars of the grate, and looks up in his master's
face, presenting to our view the profile of his hideous visage, the receding
forehead, the flat nose, the opened mouth with the lips, meeting in a point
near the nose and diverging toward the sharp and prominent chin. Opposite
him, Glow-worm, with the light from the table falling on his broad shoulders,
and the beams of the fire illumining his face, rolls his large eyes towards
his master, while his rude mouth, with the teeth projecting like fangs, is
distorted with a loathsome grimace, and his muscular right hand also holds
the iron between the bars of the grate. And the master, Darley, paint him
for us; picture old Devil-Bug. He stands between the twain, his massive face
receiving on one cheek the gleam of the lamp; on its whole extent the glare
of the fire. Picture his broad brow, hanging over his wide face, like the
edge of a beetling cliff over a receding precipice. The eyeless socket, the
glaring eye, the heavy eyebrows, the flat nose with wide nostrils, the mouth
convulsed by a grotesque grimace that discloses the clenched teeth, the
pointed chin, bristling with a stiff beard, the matted hair hanging aside
from the face and brow in uneven locks; picture it all, Darley. If your
wonderful pencil, which traverses the sheet of drawing paper with such
gracefulness and such vigor linked together by taste, if this pencil, Darley,
can depict a nightmare standing erect, with a hideous Dream squatting on
either side, then you will have delineated Devil-Bug and his attendant
negroes as they were grouped in that cozy little chamber of Monk-Hall."
Elizabeth Oaks Smith
T.H. Scherman at Northeastern Illinois University "Discovered Elizabeth Oaks
Smith in the manuscript section of the Boston Public Library." His interest
led to a dissertation and soon a book concerning the ways in which publishers
and agents turn writers into "authors" and the effects of that process on
writing, meaning, and literary history. It's called "Going Public:
Authorship and its Production in the Antebellum US", soon to come out from
Duke UP.
THE SALAMANDER: A LEGEND FOR CHRISTMAS, FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE
ERNEST HELFENSTEIN, edited by E. Oakes Smith. New York, George P. Putnam,
1848. Wood engravings: 4 plates engraved by Bobbett & Edmonds, unsigned but
"by Darley" according to color lithograph extra-title by P.S. Duval. Also
2nd edition, New York, John S. Taylor, 1851, entitled: HUGO: A LEGEND OF
ROCKLAND LAKE FOUND AMONGST THE PAPERS OF THE LATE ERNEST HELFENSTEIN;
without color lithograph with 4 wood engravings. (Bolton, p 154 American
Antiquarian Society Proceedings April 18, 1951 Volume 61 Part I)
NEW...ADDED 5/7/99...Carol Digel
https://www.angelfire.com/de/focd
arley/
https://www.angelfire.com/de/focdarley/
Shooting Turkey
AMICO: Search Results
...SEND MAIL TO THE "EDITOR"
