Literary Souvenir, a Christmas and New Year's Present for MDCCCXXXVIII (1838)
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 212. Frontis. engraving with tissue guard. Illustrated with fifteen additional engravings with tissue guards. Black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, elaborate decorations in blind on the covers and spine, gilt edges, pale yellow endpapers. Edges rubbed, spine head chipped, gift inscription on a blank preliminary and owner signature on the title page, foxing to leaves, plates and tissue guards age toned. Fair. Item #6549
Burton was an English actor and theatre manager who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1834. In 1837 he established Burton's Gentleman's Magazine inspired by the eponymous English review and had a stormy relationship with his editor Edgar Allan Poe. The selections in this volume, many by Burton, conform to that magazine's features: fiction and essays often with sporting subjects such as hunting, and poetry by Charles West Thomson.
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