Rare Books and Manuscripts PS648.S5 M97 1876 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Contemporary publisher's advertisements for the "Yankee comic tales" series attribute authorship to "Major Jones."The series is dated "[1876]" in the Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum, volume 25.Title from illustrated wrappers.BAC: British Art Center copy in publisher's original illustrated paper wrappers. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Cased with 8 other titles in the Yankee comic tales series.
Contents:
The "experience" of the blacksmith of the mountain pass -- Mississippi legislature -- Smoking a grizzly -- Where Joe Meriweather went to -- Electricity as a temperance agent -- "Doing" a sheriff.
Subject Terms:
Short stories, American. | American wit and humor.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1876. | Publishers' advertisements -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 1876. | Wit and humor. | Short stories.