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1864 Merry's Museum, Hardbound Illustrated Journal for Youth, Civil war Era 1864 Merry's Museum, Hardbound Illustrated Journal for Youth, Civil war Era Merry's Museum Volume 17 (Jan. - June 1864) and Volume 18 (July - Dec. 1864) [Bound in One Volume] Three-quarter leather over cloth-covered boards, ribbed spine, gilt spine titles, octavo, 192 + 188 pages, b&w full-page and intext illustrations throughout. The volume includes the full text as well as the semi annual indexes but it does not include the original covers of the issues. Literary journal for children. Includes non-fiction, fiction, poetry, puzzles, advice. Subjects include a trip to St. Louis, an Indian friend, birds and flowers, microscopic wonders, Independence Day, An essay on the Union soldiers on the way to fight at Gettysburg, Song for Our Soldiers, etc. Merry's Museum (1841-ca.1872) was an illustrated children's magazine established by Samuel Griswold Goodrich in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1841. Louisa May Alcott served as editor for a year or so, and also contributed stories, as did Lucretia Peabody Hale, Caroline M. Hewins, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, Helen W. Pierson, and others. Goodrich continued to oversee the magazine until 1854. For some time it was published in New York. In 1868 Boston's Horace B. Fuller bought the enterprise, and remained as publisher until ca. 1872, when the magazine ceased. Editors included Goodrich (1841-1850); Rev. S.T. Allen (ca.1850); and Alcott (ca.1868-1870). Among the many contributors were Mary Bedford; Katherine Bertha; Emer Birdsey; Kitty Carroll; Margaret Field; Lilian Louise Gilbert; E.B. Greene; Mary B. Harris; Annie Moore; Anna North; Annie Phillips; Mary N. Prescott; Rose Scott; M.G. Sleeper; Olive Thorne; and Elisabeth A. Thurston. Very scarce volume. CONDITION: Good. (Covers have moderate wear, light soiling. Age tanning of paper, brown spots. Closed tear on blank rear endpaper. Unmarked contents. Tight binding) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items. Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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