Author: John McDowell Leavitt, D.D. Formerly Editor of the International Review, and president of Lehigh University (title page)
Title: Kings of Capital and the Knights of Labor
Publication Information: Powers & LeCraw, Publishers, 5 and 7 East Fourth Street, New York . Copyrighted 1885 by Powers and Le Craw
Call #: PS2235 .L7 K5 1886
Book Size: 24 cm (H); 16.5 cm (L); 5.1 cm (spine)
Cover: Gold embossed design; overlapping elements; flowing lettering. Top of the front cover: "Kings of Capital" - note shield with the dollar sign on it; man with a crown and sword standing over a man wrapped by a snake, who winds down the front cover towards a woman holding scales (of justice, I assume; measurement perhaps?) who looks as if she's about to knight a worker (who is kneeling before her, sleeves rolled up, ax in hand). Note "Knights of Labor" scroll at the right. She's standing on a shield with stars and stripes on it; note scrolls around the edges of the cover, the plant (with berries/vine) towards the bottom. Star in the middle left of the front cover. Edges of text seem a bit bevelled. Back cover is plain. Spine design coordinates with front cover - serpent towards the top; title; Leavitt; shield with scales, stars, and stripes; "illustrated" plants.
Inside Book Covers: Mustard green with a floral design on front and back papers inside covers
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: List of steel plate engravings; List of Illustrations
Comments:
- has a preface
- Table of contents (Part I: Kings of Capital; Part II: Labor; Part III: Capital and Labor: A Word with Kings and Knights); chapter titles have descriptions
- Note coda at the end - "Education and Labor"; "How workingmen may become capitalists"
- parts of this strike me as fiction, largely polemic.
- the invocation of royalty is odd, resonant, telling
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Economics
- Class Ideologies
