Appletons Journal, Signed (1 results)

[Native Americana][Charles Dickens][W.M. Cary] Appletons' Journal--Literature Science and Art No. 73, Vol. IV Saturday August 20, 1870, D. Appleton & Co., New York. 11 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches, 213-240, iv. Toned leaves as typical. String binding intact. Wear to edges with light soiling. Good condition. Cover article is part two of "Glimpses of Indian Life" by T.B. Thorpe. Issue also includes an L. Gaylord Clark article titled "A Dinner with Charles Dickens". Appleton's Journal had just completed the serial publication of "Mystery of Edwin Drood". Dickens had passed away two months earlier. There is also a small piece titled "Dicken's Will". Also of note is a small submission called "Woman Among the Mormons" in which Elder Orson Pratt is quoted as telling his wife "he cared no more for her, nor for any of his 'wives' than he did for any healthy girl that walks the streets." Cover art is by William de la Montagne Cary (1840-1922), or W.M. Cary as he signed his work. Cary was prolific as a contributor to the depiction of the American West in illustrated newspapers such as Appletons' Journal, Harper's and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Like many Western illustrators, Cary based his drawings on his own experience in the American West.