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LOCKE Edwin A. edABAA

Tuberculosis in Massachusetts

Nasby Petroleum V. pen name of David Ross Locke; Nast Thomas IllustratorABAA

Swingin Round the Cirkle"; His Ideas of Men Politics and Things as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press During the Year 1866

186718050301Boston: Lee and Shepard 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Nast Thomas. Duodecimo size 299 pp. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke 1833-1888. Locke's greatest influence was through his satirical writings as "Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby". The Nasby letters harshly ridiculed the plight of peoples in the Confederate states and the complicity of Northern politicians. Both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant recognized Nasby as a significant source of support for their presidencies. Thomas Nast 1840-1902 eventually heightened the work with his illustrations and was also credited by Lincoln for inspiring people to support the war effort. His work marked an important shift in shift in political cartoons which had before relied mainly on text rather than imagery. "Swinging Round the Cirkle" is made up of some of the most weighted of Nasby's moral statements especially concerning the plight of African Americans. The letters were composed in response to a comment by Andrew Johnson on an "uninspired" tour of the country. ___DESCRIPTION: Original pebbled green cloth with blind-stamped panels to both boards and gilt decorations on backstrip frontis and seven additional plates with captions; duodecimo size 7 5/8" by 5 1/8" 1-4 5-299 pp. first edition. ___CONDITION: A very good copy; covers clean other than a few minor spots on the back board a strong text block with solid hinges complete with all plates the only prior owner marking being a very small plate to the front free endpaper; minor rubbing to edges and corners foxing throughout though plates are still bright; overall a very good copy. ___CITATION: BAL 11820. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Lee and Shepard hardcover books

Swan's Fine Books · États-Unis110,00 $US≈ 93,07 €

Locke J.ames W.ABAA

Autograph Letter Signed Jamaica Plain Massachusetts March 15 1836 to his sister Mary Louisa Locke New Ipswich New Hampshire

30825quarto two pages plus stamp-less address leaf in very good clean condition. Locke writes: "â€¦ in case I get any money for I am distressingly short just now â€¦ I have provided myself with a ticket for the Roxbury Lyceum course of lectures which began last evening. Introductory by Mr. Webster on popular education. It was a very good one but the views were not sound. He attributed the general increase of popular knowledge to the application of scienceâ€¦ and to general use of labor saving machines or rather as he called them Labordoing machines which by doing up the work afford much time for the improvement of the mind. He then went on to state that the more of these things the better and advocate the encouragement of monopolies and corporations for the purpose of carrying on all sorts of Business manufactures and machinery operations â€“ Now that is just the trouble with his whig principles. The poor man forgot to mention that in England the land of monopolies and of corporations and of capital and of Laboring machines the poorer laboring classes are in a far less agreeable situation than the same are with us. How ignorant and degraded are they in comparison to ours. Poor man he forgot that in the land where his favorite system is in the fullest operation there its effect which sounds so well in theory in practice has a most unfavorable effect. Webster knows better than to stick so closely to the miserable English system of Political Economy He does it all to compliment the Boston peopleâ€¦" Little is known about the astute 21 year-old writer whose life was sadly short. Born in Fitzwilliam New Hampshire he came to Massachusetts to care for a farm owned by his family. Less than ten years later he died in Arkansas at age 29. As for Daniel Webster his 1836 speech at Roxbury may have been a rehearsal for an address he delivered two years later on the floor of the United States Senate in which he lauded Massachusetts as the most "highly civilized society" on earth with the greatest "equality in the condition of men" all of whom might be called "aristocrats". He also praised science for "creating millions of laborers in the form of machines all but automatic" surely one of the earliest American tribute to automation in the era of the British Luddites. books

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis125,00 $US≈ 105,76 €