AA4. CD Fredricks, NY. William Cullen Bryant (Nov 3, 1794-June 12, 1878) Noted American poet and journalist; editor of NY Evening Post. CDV. VG. $45
Authors, Publishers, Journalists, etc.
AA4. CD Fredricks, NY. William Cullen Bryant (Nov 3, 1794-June 12,
1878) Noted American poet and journalist; editor of NY Evening Post. CDV. VG. $45
AA7. Charles D. Fredricks & Co.,
NYC. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867).
American poet and author. Lived at Idlewild on the Hudson. CDV. VG. $75
AA18. Elliott & Fry, London. Matthew
Arnold (1822-1888). Noted English poet and critic. CDV. Two corners chipped. VG. $55
AA19. Edgar Lincoln, London. Anthony
Trollope (1815-1882). Noted English novelist. CDV. VG. $150
AA20. Herbert Watkins, London. Wilkie
Collins (1824-1889). Author of "The Woman in White," "The
Moonstone," etc. Collins is viewed as playing an important role in the evolution of
the mystery genre. CDV. VG. $150
AA22. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Charles Dickens. CDV. VG. $200
AA23. Chalot, Paris. Alexander
Dumas (1802-1870). Noted French dramatic author and novelist. Few spots. CDV. VG. $95
AA24. Gundall & Co., London. Tennyson
(1809-1892). Celebrated English poet. CDV. VG. $60
AA25. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. William Hickley Prescott (1796-1859). Noted
American historian. CDV. VG. $50
AA29. Pierre Petit, Paris. Alphonse
Carr (1808-1890). French philosopher, journalist, and writer. He wrote "The more
things change, the more things stay the same." CDV. VG. $50
AA31. Pierre Petit, Paris. Edmond About
(1828-1885). French novelist, journalist, and writer. CDV. VG. $35
AA36. H.J. Whitlock, Birmingham. Dr. Francis William Newman (1805-1897).
English scholar and writer. CDV. VG. $25
AA45. No ID. John Johnstone "Lester" Wallack (1820-1888). Actor,
playwright, theatrical manager. CDV. G. $45
AA52. Elliott & Fry, London. Mark Lemon
(1809-1870). Editor of Punch, the great English humor magazine. CDV. VG. $65
AA53. Brady, published by E&HT Anthony. Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
Journalist, established the NY Tribune in 1841, served as its editor for 30 years. Active abolitionist
and feminist. CDV. VG. $135
AA54. No ID. Anthony Trollope
(1815-1882). Noted English novelist.
Cabinet Card. VG. $50
AA57. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Thule Anderson.
Cabinet Card. I believe he was an author but I'm still seeking information on
him. VG. $75
AA58. The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company. The Late Mr. John
Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Great English Philosopher. CDV. VG. $65
AA59. Elliott and Fry, London. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Great
English poet. CDV. VG. $75
AA61. Elliott and Fry, London. John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Ruskin was the greatest
British art critic and social commentator of the Victorian Age. His ideas
inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement and the founding of the National Trust,
the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Labour Movement. He
fiercely attacked the worst aspects of industrialization, and actively promoted
art education and museums for the working classes. His prophetic statements on
environmental issues speak to our generation as well as to his own.
Born on 8 February 1819, the son of a
prosperous sherry importer, Ruskin became a published poet and writer on geology
by the age of fifteen, by which time he knew the Bible intimately. Throughout
his life he undertook extended tours of Britain and the Continent, providing
material for literary works such as The Poetry of Architecture, The
Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, Mornings in
Florence, and The Bible of Amiens.
Ruskin's admiration for the work of J.M.W. Turner led to the writing of Modern Painters (5 vols), his magnum opus After the publication of the third and fourth volumes in 1856, George Eliot wrote: 'I venerate him as one of the great Teachers of the day . . . . The two last volumes of Modern Painters contain, I think, some of the finest writing of this age.' By this time Ruskin's readership in America was even larger than that in Britain, and later his work shaped the thinking of Gandhi, Tolstoy and Proust. Today there are important holdings of Ruskin material in the USA and in Tokyo, home of the Mikimoto Collection.
Ruskin was a great teacher, campaigner and controversialist. In the early 1850s he championed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and taught in the Working Men's College, London. Later in his career he used his tenure of the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Oxford to challenge established ideas on art and education. In the 1870s, while publishing his Oxford lectures, Ruskin also wrote Fors Clavigera, his monthly 'Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain'. Fors, and his lectures and books on socio-economic issues and on scientific topics, including Unto This Last and Munera Pulveris, The Crown of Wild Olive and Sesame and Lilies, The Queen of the Air and The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, reflect the breadth of his intellect, while his autobiographical writings, particularly Praeterita, reveal a sensitive and tormented mind.
Ruskin created the Guild of St George, of which he was the first Master, and which still quietly continues his work today. He generously endowed the Guild's St George's Museum in Sheffield, and the Ruskin Drawing School in Oxford. He taught many people how to draw, published The Elements of Drawing and The Elements of Perspective, and was himself a superb draughtsman.
By the time Ruskin died at Brantwood on 20 January 1900 he had accumulated a large collection of material which reflects his extraordinary range of interests and achievements: the manuscript diaries and notebooks in which he recorded events, ideas and cloud formations, sketched the Stones of Venice and the geological strata of the Alps, drafted sermons, poems and lectures; his remarkable drawings through which he learned to observe the world in great detail, and which he used to teach others; literary manuscripts and editions of his own works; the photographs and daguerreotypes which added to his unique record of the external world. CDV. VG. $75
AA70. Charles Watkins, London.
William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863). English novelist. Wrote Vanity Fair,
a satire of middle class English society. CDV. VG. $50
AA71. Rockwood, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English novelist. CDV.
G+. $95
AA82. C.D. Fredricks & Co. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882), American poet and educator whose works
include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine
Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets. CDV. VG. $75
AA83. Warren, Boston. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27,
1807 – March 24, 1882), American poet and educator whose works include "Paul
Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also
the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and
was one of the five Fireside Poets. CDV. VG. $75
AA87. Black, Boston. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909). American author and
Unitarian clergyman. Author of "The Man Without a Country." CDV. VG. $150
AA108. No ID. Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906) was a major
19th-century
Norwegian
playwright,
theatre director, and
poet. He is often referred to as "the god father" of
modern drama and is one of the founders of
Modernism
in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when
Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in
Europe. Ibsen's
work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a
revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a
critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of
morality.
Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European
tradition, alongside
Shakespeare. He wrote:
Cabinet Card. VG. $125
AA109. Sarony, NY. Cabinet Card of Josh Billings, the pen name of Henry
Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885). VG. $125
AA110. E&HT Anthony. Mrs. H.B. Stowe. CDV. VG. $175
AA111. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published
by E&HT Anthony. Park Benjamin (1809-1864). American poet, journalist, editor.
CDV. G. $65
AA112. E&HT Anthony. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 –
March 24, 1882), American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's
Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first
American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of
the five Fireside Poets. CDV. VG. $65
AA113. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published
by E&HT Anthony. Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859),
American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century.
He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip
Van Winkle," both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey
Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington,
Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain
dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.
Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. CDV. VG. $75
AA114. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published
by E&HT Anthony. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12,
1891), American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated
with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first
American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. CDV. VG. $75
AA115. D. Appleton & Co., NY. William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794
– June 12, 1878), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of
the New York Evening Post. CDV. VG. $65
AA116. D. Appleton & Co., NY. Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20,
1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis, was an American
author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers
including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the
highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of
former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. CDV. VG. $75
AA118. E&HT Anthony. John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873),
British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to
social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of
liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state
control. Mill was also a Member of Parliament and an important figure in
liberal political philosophy. CDV. VG. $65
AA119. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY & Washington DC.
Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878), American poet,
literary critic, translator, and travel author. CDV. VG. $85
AA120. No ID. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, (6 August 1809 – 6
October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen
Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English
language. CDV. VG. $65
AA121. D. Appleton & Co., NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). CDV. VG. $150
AA122. E&HT Anthony. Victor Hugo (1802-1885). French poet, playwright,
novelist, essayist, statesman, etc. CDV. VG. $125
AA123. J. Gurney & Son, NY. William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811
– 24 December 1863), English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his
satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of
English society. CDV. VG. $60
AA124. Negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT
Anthony. John Wien Forney (1817-1881), American journalist & politician. CDV.
VG. $75
AA125. D. Appleton & Co., NY. Henry Theodore Tuckerman (April 20,
1813 – December 17, 1871), American writer, essayist and critic. Tuckerman was
born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a
graceful style. He wrote extensively both in prose and verse. He travelled much
in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings. These
include The Italian Sketch-book (1835), Isabel, or Sicily: A
Pilgrimage (1839); two volumes of verse, Poems (1851) and A Sheaf
of Verse (1864); Thoughts on the Poets (1864), The Book of the
Artists (1867), Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer, etc. He was
prominent in the literary life of New York City after 1845. CDV. VG. $65
AA126. Negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT
Anthony. John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), American historian. CDV. G. $75
AA127. D. Appleton & Co., NY. George William Curtis (1824-1892), American
writer, public speaker; political editor of Harper's Weekly. CDV. VG. $75
AA128. D. Appleton & Co., NY. Charles Mackay (1814-1889), Scottish poet,
journalist and song writer. Wrote Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the
Madness of Crowds in 1841. CDV. VG. $75
AA129. John & Charles Watkins, London. Gerald Massey (1828-1907), English
poet and Egyptologist. CDV. VG. $65
AA130. D. Appleton & Co., NY. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 –
September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th
century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and
the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring
frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel
The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece. CDV. VG. $35
AA131. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Harper
Bros. Publishers. CDV. G. $225
AA132. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Charles
Anderson Dana (1819-1897). American journalist, author, government official;
associate of Grant; Asst. Sec'y of War 1863-1865. CDV. VG. $150
AA133. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. James
Gordon Bennett (1795-1872). Founder, editor, and publisher of the NY Herald.
Bennett was a major figure in the history of American newspapers. CDV. G. $125
AA134. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony.
George Dennison Prentice was the editor of the Louisville Journal,
which he built into a major newspaper. He attracted readers by satire as well as
exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His
writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner
sentiment, and a riot in 1855. During the Civil War, he created and wrote about
a fictional guerrilla "Sue Mundy," whose activities he used to taunt the Union
military commander of the state. CDV. VG. $125
AA135. Wm. H. Guild, Jr. Fanny Fern. Sara Willis Parton (1811-1872);
American writer, 1st woman to have a regular newspaper column (NY Ledger);
highest paid columnist in the US in 1855. CDV. VG. $225
AA136. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony.
Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American
journalist and politician and founder of The New York Times. CDV. VG.
$125
AA138. CDV of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November
20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stroies.
Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the
novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of
the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Tolstoy is
equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme
moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and
spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral
thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings
of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to
become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on
nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is
Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century
figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Many consider Tolstoy to
have been one of the world's greatest novelists. VG. $150
AA139. No ID. Eliza Cook (1818 – 1889) was an English author,
Chartist poet and writer. G. $35
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