Author: Irving, Washington
Title: Wolfert's Roost
Publication Information: New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 10 Park Place 1855
Call #: PS2071 . A1 1855
Book Size: 19 cm (H); 13+cm (L); 3.5 cm (spine)
Cover: brown cover, inset designs in corners, embossed gold in the middle of the front cover of a village, with trees, and view out to water, sails, clouds; same embossed cover on the back, minus the gold in the center; embossing on binding too, and Wolfert's Roost, a line, then Irving on the spine. Blind stamping for design on the edges of front and back covers; gilt stamping for the center of the front cover. Note diagonal wave pattern background on the cloth (a bit worn); this grain was in peak use in 1855, the time of publication.
Inside Book Covers: plain paper (original)
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: to pages before the title page; left page illustrated "The Contented Man" (man, woman, child); the right page, "The Cow Boys" (men on horses herding cow, sheep); tissue paper between these two pages; doesn't seem to have illustrations in the body of the work. Note initials at the bottom of the "The Cow Boys" illustration - J.W.O.P.P ScNY
Comments:
- section "To Book Collectors" in the back pages
- At the back of the book an extensive listing of Putnam's books; note categories: General Literature; History, Biography, Travels; School and College Textbooks; Medical Scientific-Society Publications; Smithsonian Publications: Putnam's Monthly Magazine; Art and Industry
- Note the authors being published: Melville; Miss Fenimore Cooper: Addison, Steele, Goldsmith; Miss Anne Lynch, Miss Susan Warner, etc.
- Note inside: John F. Trow Printer and Stereotyper 49 Ann Street
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Advertising and Marketing
- Illustration
