[Rarebooks] fa: CIVIL WAR - HARPER'S WEEKLY 1863-1864 - 56 Issues

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

Harper's Weekly. November 28, 1863—December 31, 1864. Hardcover  
elephant folio (16.5 x 11.5 in.; 42 x 29.5 cm), half leather over  
marbled boards; c. 927 pp.; illustrated.

Ca. fifty-six issues, comprising more than 900 pages, of Harper's  
Weekly, the most popular newspaper published during the Civil War.  
Every issue features in-depth (if hardly unbiased) coverage of the war  
in this climactic year of the conflict. With many full-page and double- 
page (c. 13.5" x 20") illustrations by the likes of THOMAS NAST,  
WINSLOW HOMER, and other leading illustrators of the day...

Perhaps as significant, this run of the newspaper contains extensive,  
week-by-week coverage of the 1864 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN between  
ABRAHAM LINCOLN and GEORGE McCLELLAN, often considered the most  
significant presidential election campaign in the country's history.  
With reports from the conventions, campaign speeches, editorials,  
political cartoons and woodcuts (including some of THOMAS NAST's best  
and angriest work aimed at the "Copperhead" Democrats, such as his  
famous "Compromise With the South."

Also included: one of Thomas Nast's earliest depictions of SANTA  
CLAUS, the first showing Santa bearing his bag of gifts (Nast is  
credited with inventing the modern image of Santa Claus); plus  
illustrated features on BALLOONING (Crash of M. Nadar's Balloon "Le  
Géant"; "History of Flying Machines"; etc.); EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN OF  
MEXICO; the BROOKLYN FAIR IN AID OF THE SANITATION COMMISSION; the  
FOURTEENTH STREET FAIR; CENTRAL PARK; fashions of the time; hundreds  
and hundreds of period ads; and much more.

These are complete issues, with all ads, cartoons, and editorial  
matter, apparently acquired individually and then bound together by  
the original owner...