THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD
THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD

THE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA 1857 ANTIQUARIAN ANTHOLOGY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD

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The Prose Writers of America with a Survey of the Intellectual History, Condition, and Prospects of the Country

 

edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Parry & McMillan, Philadelphia, 1847.

Prose Writers of America was first published in 1847 (this is the 4th and last edition) and was specifically designed to compete with a similar anthology by Cornelius Mathews and Evert Augustus Duyckinck. 

Editor/author Rufus Wilmot Griswold was an influential editor but less than civil and scrupulous, he outed Walt Whitman (although apparently it took one to know one) and is perhaps best remembered today for defaming Edgar Allan Poe, later becoming Poe's literary executor under less than ethical circumstances.  One of Griswold's anthologies was among the first to publish Poe's poem The Raven.

This volume was one of Griswold's last works, a piece of somewhat controversial literary history. 

Interesting cover with a cameo-like circular cut out (both front and back covers) with gilt floral design.  552 toned pages with double borders.  Frontispiece of Washington Irving.

Authors include: William Ellery Channing; Daniel Webster; John James Audubon; Joseph Stevens Buckminster; Andrews Norton; John Anderson; T. B. Thorpe; Edward Everett; Orville Dewey; James Fenimore Cooper; Caroline M Kirkland; E.P. Whipple; John Sanderson; William H. Prescott; Catherine M. Sedgwick; William Cullen Bryant; James Hall; more.

Several illustrations including portraits of Joseph Story; President Edwards; John James Audubon; James Fenimore Cooper; William H. Prescott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Charles Fenno Hoffman.

Green cloth with decorative gilt on front and back covers and spine.  Bevelled edges.  Soil to covers; chipping and wear to head and heel of spine, wear to corners, edgewear. 

Pencilled price on fep.  Some foxing to frontispiece, title pages (about the first few pages of the book and the last several.)  We noted two previously folded page corners, a pencilled x on the margin of the first contents page and a wrinkle on contents page.  We also note one page with a light water stain (see photo.)  Sewn binding with slightly weak endpapers (see photo for examples of sewn binding condition, which varies.)  Pages which abut illustrations have some ghostly light sepia colored transfer (see more photos.)  Gilt stain all around is a bit dull.  The type size for this volume is on the small size, about 8 points, is our guess. 

The first photo is under natural light, the second photo is with flash. 

 

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