Winter Harbor, First Edition (4 results)

Print. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the February 1, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts JANUARY - a farmer and a boy carrying hay to four cows penned between a wooden barn and another small outbuilding. The buildings are covered in snow, as is the ground. There are some chickens grazing in the foreground. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. It ceased publication in 1859. Extra shipping charge may apply.

First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. From Engravings (illustrator). First Edition. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1857. First Edition. The February 28, 1857 issue, Volume XII, No. 9, Whole No. 297. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good Plus, with very little of the common peripheral darkening, edge wear and toning. Modest amounts of each, thus better than Very Good, not quite Near Fine. See scans. A sturdy and handsome example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: cover article, "Winter Scene, Boston Harbor", text with an engraving of the British mail steamer coming through the harbor through ice; The Spanish Moor, or, The Convent of Alcala - A Story of the Throne, The Altar, and The Forest (several chapters of the Eugene Scribe continuing story); Persian Irregular Troops, text with engraving; American Wild Flowers, text only; Eastern Domestic Architecture in Cairo (text and four engravings); Discoveries in Africa, text only; The Young Carpenter's First Crime, by Emma Carra; a vast two full page engraving of "Columbus Discovering America", large and dramatic; The Spectre - A Legend of Granite Island by J. Grafton Allen; What Is It ? by Miss Caroline T. Hentz; Adam Wallace Thaxter, Jr., Esq., brief bio and a portrait engraving; A half-page engraving, "Scene in Winter Street, Boston, During the Late Snow Storm"; rear cover is a full page engraving showing "Master Geo. W. Marsh, the Infant Comedian of Marsh's Juvenile Troupe", in nine different role costumes; as well as of course a number of short editorials, news pieces, poems, and ads. Please see all scans. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought that - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. lLng2.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Winter 1989-90, #156 of 300. Lightly soiled wrappers thus near fine.