Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
American Collector
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Prints Division
Author: New York Public Library. Prints DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
American Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Old American Prints for Collectors
Author: John EbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2934
Book Description
A Handbook of Popular Antiques
Author: Katharine Morrison McClintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Author: John William RepsPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826204163
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader
Author: Phineas Taylor BarnumPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252030543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader reveals the trailblazing American showman as, by turns, a moral reformer, a habitual hoaxer, an insightful critic, a savvy "puffer," a master of images, a sparkling writer, a relentless provocateur, and an early advocate of "family" entertainments. Taken together, these selections paint a new and more complete portrait of this complex man than has ever been seen before. James W. Cook's The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader includes large excerpts from Barnum's semi-autobiographical novel The Adventures of an Adventurer (1841), his European letters from 1844-46 informing readers of the New York Atlas of his reception by royalty overseas, selections from his Ancient and Modern Humbugs of the World (Barnum's 1864-65 insider's look into nineteenth-century frauds), and much, much more. The book also features vintage photographs and reproductions of difficult-to-find images from Barnum's two-decade collaboration with the prominent New York lithographers Currier and Ives. Collectively, these materials help us to track the shifting personas of the great showman, his promotional choices, and his publics across the nineteenth century. Book jacket.