A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Prefaced by a Sketch of the Firm, and Followed by Lists of the Several Libraries, Series, and Periodicals. With Some Account of the Origins and Character of these Literary Enterprises.
Cambridge: 1899. Item #775 8vo. 240 x 145 mm., [9 ½ x 5 ½ inches]. xvii, 205 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the portraits of “Six Great Authors.” Original boards, cloth spine, paper label on upper board’ covers soiled and a bit stained; sound and good copy. Useful bio-bibliography of the authors published by Houghton Mifflin, with a detailed history of the firm and illustrations of its various printer’s marks. Nice designed and printed by the Riverside Press, complete with an index of authors and titles. Established in 1880, Houghton, Mifflin were the principal publishers of American and English fiction and history, by published series of authors in various genres of literature. Alas, no Whitman! (775)
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