Illustrated birthday book of American poets, The.

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Illustrated birthday book of American poets, The.

Entry/Object ID

PM22.1

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

307 pages : portraits ; 14 cm 1 book, 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches, "Dora Dyrenforth Jan 6 1887-" written in pencil in front of The Illustrated Birthday Book of American Poets, 1880. Personal handwritten inscriptions inside. Found in collection by archivist, 10/04/2010. She found it in the collection with little information on donation. Dyrenforth Birthday Book was owned by Dora Dyrenforth who lived in Jacksonville in the late 1800's. Alternate pages blank for recording birthdays. Blank pages for "Index of birthdays" (285-307). Published in 1880 under title: The birthday book of American poets. With thirteen portraits of American poets: Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Bret Harte -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- William Dean Howells -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Richard Henry Stoddard -- Bayard Taylor -- John Greenleaf Whittier.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Birthday books., Poets, American. - Portraits., Dyrenforth family - History.

Publication Details

Author

Hayward, Almira L. (Almira Leach), -1894. Hayward, Almira L. (Almira L

Publisher

Publisher not identified

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

location not identified

Call No.

Rare Book PS 607 .H39 1887