Title: The Bryant festival at "The Century"Author: Century Association (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, ...
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Title: The Bryant festival at "The Century"Author: Century Association (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02414200CollectionID: CTRG97-B2895PublicationDate: 18650101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Includes poems, letters, and speeches in honor of William Cullen Bryant read at his 70th birthday celebration at the Century Association, N.Y. Among those who paid tribute to Bryant were George Bancroft, president of the Century Association, Bayard Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. "Mr. Bryant's reply to Mr. Bancroft," p. 9-13, and remarks, p. 42. The illustrations include a headpiece on p. [3] signed "Anthony-Davis NY" (apparently a collaboration between A.V.S. Anthony and J.P. Davis), photographs and engravings. Only plates 15, 16, 19 and 22 are signed; engraved by H.W. Smith, S.A. Schoff, J. Cheney, and J.B. Forrest after S.W. Rowse, C.L. Elliott, and W.R. Miller. Copyright 1864 by the Century Association. "Only one hundred and fifty copies printed."--T.p. verso. Title page and verso printed in red and black.Collation: 88 p., [23] leaves of plates: ill.; 31 cm
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