Author: Kirke, Edmund
Title: My Southern Friends
Publication Information: New York: Carleton Publisher, 413 Broadway M.DCCC.LXIII
Call #: PS 1744 .G68 M9 1863
Book Size: 19 cm (H); 13 cm (L); 2.5 cm (spine)
Cover: Brown cover, embossed design around perimeter of cover, with central design; texture of waves as the background; front and back cover are the same; title and author's last name on the binding; looks like the Carleton imprint at the bottom of the spine as well. This is an example of wave grain cover. The cloth went through rollers to achieve the wave grain effect; then it was embossed by machine; then gilt stamped by machine.
Inside Book Covers: olive colored pages, inside front and back covers
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: none
Comments:
- Dedication: To Charles Godfrey Leland, my friend, an the friend of every man who would exalt labor and dignifies the laborer, I dedicate this book. The Author note that the phrase "I dedicate this book" is in Gothic type
- The author's name, on the title page, is "Edmund Kirke, Author of "Among the Pines"
- Chapters: numbered, with brief descriptions after each
- The back page of New Books and New Editions by Carleton Books lists mostly novels, domestic, comic, etc. (and included Hugo's Les Miserables); functionally a publishers catalogue
- Another back page on Kirke's Among the Pines includes excerpts from reviews, over 30,000 copies sold
- Published during the Civil War
- Probably can see the sections of the book tied together better on this one than most.
- Note comment on the insider cover - that they had established a uniform binding for this author , so that when customers would see this cover, they would associate it with Kirke. It also signals the marketing of the texts together
- note "(Fortieth Thousand)" as the number of copies of Among the Pines
- note the prices; 1.00 for cloth; Paper 75 cts.
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Civil War Culture
- Marketing, Pricing and Advertising
