Showing posts with label 1888. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1888. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Pioneer (1888)

“Wonders and Beauties,” Chicago: an Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City with a Useful Stranger's Guide  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888),  183.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Dragon Ship Was Glittering in the Bay (1888)

Elizabeth Jane Oswald, The Dragon of the North: A Tale of the Normans in Italy (London: Seeley and Co., 1888), frontispiece.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Head and Tail Pieces: No. 2904, $1.25 (1888)

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1888): cut 2094.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Cuts Are Sent by Mail Pre-Paid on Receipt of List Price (1888)

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1888): cuts 1649, 1842, and 1843.


Thursday, March 5, 2015

Things Hitherto Familiar and Friendly Now Became Full of Terror; and the Comfort of Her Life Was Gone (1888)

Amy Walton, “The Truslow Ghost,” A Pair of Clogs and Other Stories for Children (London: Blackie and Son, 1888), 124.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

It Was Found That the Parson Could Steer the Sled (1888)

Illustration by Thomas Worth, W.H.H. Murray, How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year’s: And Other Stories (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888), 35.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Battle with the Devil-Fish (1888)

C.M. Newell. The Isle of Palms: Adventures While Wrecking for Gold, Encounter with a Mad Whale, Battle with a Devil-fish, and Capture of a Mermaid. (Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske, and Company, 1888.)

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

In the Burning Breaker (1888)

Kirk Munroe. Derek Stirling: A Story of the Mines. (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1888).

Monday, September 23, 2013

Nothing in Front Save the Yawning Mouth of the Shaft (1888)

Kirk Munroe. Derek Stirling: A Story of the Mines. (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1888).

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

After the Fire, Truth in the Torn Leaf (1888)

Homer Greene. Burnham Breaker. Illustrated by A.W. Cooper. (Frederick Warne and Company, 1888).

Monday, September 9, 2013

The Rest of the Way (1888)

Kirk Munroe. Derek Stirling: A Story of the Mines. (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1888).

Friday, September 28, 2012

Chicago's Worst Cow (1888)

Chicago's worst cow; Chicago fire
Chicago: An Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City; With a Useful Stranger's Guide.  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888).

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

La Salle Street Tunnel (1888)

La Salle Street Tunnel
Chicago: an Instructive and Entertaining History, or A Wonderful City.  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888).

Monday, September 3, 2012

Farragut Boat Club (1888)

Farragut Boat Club
The Chicago Clubs: Illustrated. (Chicago: Lanward Publishing Company, 1888).

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Rudyard's Lighthouse (1888)

R.M. Ballantyne. The Story of the Rock or Building on the Eddystone. (London: James Nisbet & Company, 1888).

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Chart of Mars (1888)

"Maps and Views of Mars." Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Literature, & Art. 11 (September 1888).

Saturday, December 24, 2011

It's Old Father Christmas (1888)

Juliana Horatia Ewing. Snap-dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve, and Old Father Christmas, an Old Fashioned Tale of the Young Days of a Grumpy Old Godfather. Illustrated by Gordon Brown. (London: E. & J.B. Son & Company, 1888).

Friday, December 23, 2011

Snap-dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve (1888)

Juliana Horatia Ewing. Snap-dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve, and Old Father Christmas, an Old Fashioned Tale of the Young Days of a Grumpy Old Godfather. Illustrated by Gordon Brown. (London: E. & J.B. Son & Company, 1888).

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Old Father Christmas (1888)

Lizzie Mack and Robert Ellis Mac. Old Father Christmas  (London: Ernest Nister, 1888).

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Electric Dog Cart (1888)

The Electrician: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of  Electrical Science, Industry, and Engineering. 21.  (September 14, 1888).