The Book of Bubbles, a Contribution to the New York Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission

Published by New York, New York, 1864

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Original illustrated brown cloth, front hinge gone, cover loose. Worn at edges, corners bumped. Many leaves moderately waterstained, heavier towards the front of the volume. iv, 68 pp., with uncolored cartoon illustrations on rectos. Versos blank. Each illustration is accompanied by a limerick, many on some sort of economic or political theme. A book of limericks with satirical sketches accompanied by limerick verse published on the occasion of the Great Central Fair for the US Sanitary Commission in 1864 for the relief of Union soldiers. This volume was undoubtedly modeled after Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense, the first edition of which had been published at Philadelphia the previous year. This book demonstrates the public's appetite for the genre. Five illustrations encompass racial subjects (#'s 4, 42, 47, 52 & 60), one of which also caricatures Lincoln. The lithographs are executed by Endicott & Co. Illustrations are variously signed: B.D., W.E.Cresson, Cresson, Mrs. Emlen Cresson, G.W.Clinton, G.W.C. Murrell (American Graphic Humor) volume 1, p.214. Sabin 6347.…

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Title
The Book of Bubbles, a Contribution to the New York Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission
Author
Endicott & Co., lith.
Publisher
New York, New York
Publication year
1864
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Hardcover
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1st Edition
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