Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, May 26, 1855. Club House at Beacon and Park Streets; "The King and the Cobbler"; New Zealand; William the Conqueror; "The Pretended Nephew"; Trenton, New Jersey; Greece; "Freemont!"; Freeman Hunt, Esq.; Old Fort at Medford; Old Feather Store, Dock Square; Quakers in Boston; Norfolk House, Roxbury; Revolutionary Monuments at Lexington & Concord

Ballou, Maturin M. and Durivage, Francis A. [Editors]; Austin C. Burdick; Anne T. Wilbur; Dr. J.V.C. Smith; Frederick Stanhope

Published by Ballou, M.M., Boston, 1855

About this Item

Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1855. First Edition [newspaper]. The May 26,1855 issue, Volume VIII, No. 21, Whole No. 203. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. A strong Very Good Plus; other than modest occasional darkening to places on the covers (see scans), hardly anything to point to here. One of the highest grade copies I have. 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 - as follows: Club House, Corner of Beacon and Park Streets, with large engraving; "The King and the Cobbler: A Romance of Ancient Persia" (continuation at chapter VIII) by Austin C. Burdick; three locations in New Zealand, with text and three engravings; William the Conqueror, with large engraving; "The Pretended Nephew", by Anne T. Wilbur; Trenton, New Jersey, with text and six memorable engravings; "Greece", by Dr. J.V.C. Smith; "Freemont! Or, The Ride of the One Hundred" by Frederick Stanhope; Freeman Hunt, Esq., text with engraving; Old Fort at Medford, text with engraving; Old Feather Store, Dock Square, Boston, text with engraving; Quakers in Boston; Norfolk House, Roxbury, text with engraving; Revolutionary Monument at Lexington, text with engraving; Revolutionary Monument at Concord, text with scan; and a number of short editorials, news pieces, poems, and ads. 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. An early issue under this name. lLng1. Seller Inventory # 005648

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, ...

Publisher: Ballou, M.M., Boston

Publication Date: 1855

Binding: Self-wraps [newspaper]

Illustrator: From Engravings

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition