Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859

Title:

History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs : embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian gallery in the Department of war, at Washington / by Thomas L. M'Kenney ... and James Hall ...

Published / Created:

Philadelphia : Published by Frederick W. Greenough, 1838-1844.

Philadelphia : T.K. & P.G. Collins, printers, No. 1 Lodge Alley

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 52 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2015 47
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Bennett, W. Practical guide to American nineteenth century color plate books , p. 79

BEIN: Imperfect: All but 2 plates wanting; several pages detached due to knifing out of plates.

With 120 hand-colored lithographs after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rindisbacher and R.M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre, and others; printed and colored by J.T. Bowen and others.

Collation: v. 1, iv, 206 p. col. front., 47 col. plates of port.--v. 2, 2 p.l., 237 p., 47 col. plates of port.--v. 3, 2 p. l., 196, [2] p., 23 col. plates of port., map, 17 plates of facsim. Blank pages included in the pagination.

Volume 2 has separate title page.

Vol. 2 and 3 published by Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1843-1844.

Manufacture statement from title page verso.

Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition), M1295

Field, T.W. Essay towards an Indian bibliography, 992

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 43410a

Vol. 2 includes biographical sketches of Keokuk and Neomonni, with portraits.

"History of the Indian tribes of North America" v. 3, p. [1]-44.

"An essay on the history of the North American Indians. By James Hall": v. 3, p. [45]-196.

Volume 3 includes two lithographed maps.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in later red half morocco and red cloth; binder's stamp: Bayntun, binder, Bath, Eng.

Subject Terms:

Indians of North America -- History. | Indians of North America -- Biography. | Indians of North America -- Portraits.

Form/Genre:

Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1838-1844.

Contributors:

Hall, James, 1793–1868. | Greenough, Frederick W., publisher. | T.K. & P.G. Collins (Firm), printer. | Bowen, John T., approximately 1801–1856? lithographer. | Bodmer, Karl, 1809–1893, illustrator. | King, Charles Bird, 1785–1862, illustrator. | Lewis, James Otto, 1799–1858, illustrator. | Rindisbacher, Peter, 1806–1834, illustrator. | Sully, Robert Matthew, 1803–1855, illustrator. | Dacre, Henry, approximately 1820–, lithographer. | Hoffy, Alfred M., approximately 1790–, lithographer. | Newsam, Albert, 1809–1864, lithographer. | Trembley, Ralph, approximately 1817–, lithographer. | Bayntun, George, 1873–1940, binder.