AA4. CD Fredricks, NY. William Cullen Bryant (Nov 3, 1794-June 12, 1878) Noted American poet and journalist; editor of NY Evening Post. CDV. VG. $45
AA4. CD Fredricks, NY. William Cullen Bryant (Nov 3, 1794-June 12,
1878) Noted American poet and journalist; editor of NY Evening Post. CDV. VG. $45
AA7. Charles D. Fredricks & Co.,
NYC. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867).
American poet and author. Lived at Idlewild on the Hudson. CDV. VG. $75
AA18. Elliott & Fry, London. Matthew
Arnold (1822-1888). Noted English poet and critic. CDV. Two corners chipped. VG. $55
AA19. Edgar Lincoln, London. Anthony
Trollope (1815-1882). Noted English novelist. CDV. VG. $150
AA20. Herbert Watkins, London. Wilkie
Collins (1824-1889). Author of "The Woman in White," "The
Moonstone," etc. Collins is viewed as playing an important role in the evolution of
the mystery genre. CDV. VG. $150
AA22. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Charles Dickens. CDV. VG. $200
AA23. Chalot, Paris. Alexander
Dumas (1802-1870). Noted French dramatic author and novelist. Few spots. CDV. VG. $95
AA24. Gundall & Co., London. Tennyson
(1809-1892). Celebrated English poet. CDV. VG. $60
AA25. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. William Hickley Prescott (1796-1859). Noted
American historian. CDV. VG. $50
AA29. Pierre Petit, Paris. Alphonse
Carr (1808-1890). French philosopher, journalist, and writer. He wrote "The more
things change, the more things stay the same." CDV. VG. $50
AA31. Pierre Petit, Paris. Edmond About
(1828-1885). French novelist, journalist, and writer. CDV. VG. $35
AA36. H.J. Whitlock, Birmingham. Dr. Francis William Newman (1805-1897).
English scholar and writer. CDV. VG. $25
AA45. No ID. John Johnstone "Lester" Wallack (1820-1888). Actor,
playwright, theatrical manager. CDV. G. $45
AA52. Elliott & Fry, London. Mark Lemon
(1809-1870). Editor of Punch, the great English humor magazine. CDV. VG. $65
AA53. Brady, published by E&HT Anthony. Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
Journalist, established the NY Tribune in 1841, served as its editor for 30 years. Active abolitionist
and feminist. CDV. VG. $135
AA54. No ID. Anthony Trollope
(1815-1882). Noted English novelist.
Cabinet Card. VG. $50
AA57. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Thule Anderson.
Cabinet Card. I believe he was an author but I'm still seeking information on
him. VG. $75
AA58. The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company. The Late Mr. John
Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Great English Philosopher. CDV. VG. $95
AA59. Elliott and Fry, London. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Great
English poet. CDV. VG. $75
AA61. Elliott and Fry, London. John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Ruskin was the greatest
British art critic and social commentator of the Victorian Age. His ideas
inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement and the founding of the National Trust,
the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Labour Movement. He
fiercely attacked the worst aspects of industrialization, and actively promoted
art education and museums for the working classes. His prophetic statements on
environmental issues speak to our generation as well as to his own.
Born on 8 February 1819, the son of a
prosperous sherry importer, Ruskin became a published poet and writer on geology
by the age of fifteen, by which time he knew the Bible intimately. Throughout
his life he undertook extended tours of Britain and the Continent, providing
material for literary works such as The Poetry of Architecture, The
Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, Mornings in
Florence, and The Bible of Amiens.
Ruskin's admiration for the work of J.M.W. Turner led to the writing of Modern Painters (5 vols), his magnum opus After the publication of the third and fourth volumes in 1856, George Eliot wrote: 'I venerate him as one of the great Teachers of the day . . . . The two last volumes of Modern Painters contain, I think, some of the finest writing of this age.' By this time Ruskin's readership in America was even larger than that in Britain, and later his work shaped the thinking of Gandhi, Tolstoy and Proust. Today there are important holdings of Ruskin material in the USA and in Tokyo, home of the Mikimoto Collection.
Ruskin was a great teacher, campaigner and controversialist. In the early 1850s he championed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and taught in the Working Men's College, London. Later in his career he used his tenure of the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Oxford to challenge established ideas on art and education. In the 1870s, while publishing his Oxford lectures, Ruskin also wrote Fors Clavigera, his monthly 'Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain'. Fors, and his lectures and books on socio-economic issues and on scientific topics, including Unto This Last and Munera Pulveris, The Crown of Wild Olive and Sesame and Lilies, The Queen of the Air and The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, reflect the breadth of his intellect, while his autobiographical writings, particularly Praeterita, reveal a sensitive and tormented mind.
Ruskin created the Guild of St George, of which he was the first Master, and which still quietly continues his work today. He generously endowed the Guild's St George's Museum in Sheffield, and the Ruskin Drawing School in Oxford. He taught many people how to draw, published The Elements of Drawing and The Elements of Perspective, and was himself a superb draughtsman.
By the time Ruskin died at Brantwood on 20 January 1900 he had accumulated a large collection of material which reflects his extraordinary range of interests and achievements: the manuscript diaries and notebooks in which he recorded events, ideas and cloud formations, sketched the Stones of Venice and the geological strata of the Alps, drafted sermons, poems and lectures; his remarkable drawings through which he learned to observe the world in great detail, and which he used to teach others; literary manuscripts and editions of his own works; the photographs and daguerreotypes which added to his unique record of the external world. CDV. VG. $75
AA70. Charles Watkins, London.
William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863). English novelist. Wrote Vanity Fair,
a satire of middle class English society. CDV. VG. $75
AA71. Rockwood, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English novelist. CDV.
G+. $95
AA82. C.D. Fredricks & Co. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (1807-1882). Famous American poet. CDV. VG. $75
AA83. Warren, Boston. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882). Famous American poet. CDV. VG. $75
AA86.
Sarony, NY. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). English novelist. Author of "The Woman in White," "The
Moonstone," etc. Collins is viewed as playing an important role in the evolution of
the mystery genre. CDV. VG. $150
AA87. Black, Boston. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909). American author and
Unitarian clergyman. Author of "The Man Without a Country." CDV. VG. $150
AA89. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English
novelist. 1867 copyright line bottom recto. Dickens did readings in NYC in 1867
when this image was taken. Variant of AA101 below. CDV.
VG. $150
AA91. Silsbee, Case & Co., Boston. Published by Williams & Everett.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1906-1861) and Robert Wiedemann Barrett (1849-1912).
English poet, married Robert Browning 1846. CDV. VG. $150
AA100. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English
novelist. 1867 copyright line bottom recto. Dickens did readings in NYC in 1867
when this image was taken. CDV. VG. $125
AA106. London Stereoscopic Co. Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22
November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot,
was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian
era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their
realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure
that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their
own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer
of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private
life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship
with the married George Henry Lewes. VG. $65
AA108. No ID. Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906) was a major
19th-century
Norwegian
playwright,
theatre director, and
poet. He is often referred to as "the god father" of
modern drama and is one of the founders of
Modernism
in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when
Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in
Europe. Ibsen's
work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a
revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a
critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of
morality.
Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European
tradition, alongside
Shakespeare. He wrote:
Cabinet Card. VG. $125
AA109. Sarony, NY. Cabinet Card of Josh Billings, the pen name of Henry
Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885). VG. $125
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