Preliminaries
-- --
Toujours Pret;
Dexter A.
Hawkins
No. 4, 4, New York
[figure description] 482EAF. Paste-Down Endpaper with Bookplate: the top center of
the image contains a heraldic shield. On top of the shield sits a
Moorish king, with a crown on his head and his arms stuck out at his
side. On the upper left corner of the shield is a square with two
serpents standing outside a basket. In the top center of the shield are
three white speckled circles. Below the circles, on a dark background,
is a lion walking on rolling sands. Below the shield is a banner with a
motto that reads "Toujours Pret." Underneath the image is the name
Dexter A. Hawkins, in script and the address "No. 44 New
York."[end figure description]
-- --
Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton
Waller Barrett
[figure description] 482EAF. Free Endpaper with Bookplate: heraldry figure with a
green tree on top and shield below. There is a small gray shield
hanging from the branches of the tree, with three blue figures on that
small shield. The tree stands on a base of gray and black intertwined
bars, referred to as a wreath in heraldic terms. Below the tree is a
larger shield, with a black background, and with three gray, diagonal
stripes across it; these diagonal stripes are referred to as bends in
heraldic terms. There are three gold leaves in line, end-to-end, down
the middle of the center stripe (or bend), with green veins in the
leaves. Note that the colors to which this description refers appear in
some renderings of this bookplate; however, some renderings may appear
instead in black, white and gray tones.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Free Endpaper.[end figure description]
First Edition
1st printing correct first issue
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Half-Title.[end figure description]
ARTEMUS WARD,
HIS BOOK,
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
Mr. Ward delivering his great Union Speech. [See Page 209.]
[figure description] 482EAF. Image of Mr. Ward holding onto a giant American flag with th
words UNION over his head.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Tissue Paper.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Tissue Paper.[end figure description]
Preliminaries
-- --
[figure description] Title-Page.[end figure description]
Title Page
Artemus
Ward
HIS BOOK
WITH MANY COMIC ILLUSTRATIONS.
New-York:
CARLETON, PUBLISHER,
[LATE RUDD & CARLETON]
MDCCCLXII.
[figure description] Copyright Page.[end figure description]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by
CHARLES F. BROWN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of
New York.
-- --
Dedication
To
CHARLES W. COE, Esq.,
[figure description] Dedication.[end figure description]
OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,
(A Friend all the Year Round,)
This Book is Dedicated.
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
CONTENTS.
[figure description] Contents Page.[end figure description]
PAGE
ONE OF MR. WARD'S BUSINESS LETTERS 17
THE SHAKERS 20
HIGH-HANDED OUTRAGE AT UTICA 34
THE ATLANTIC CABLE 36
AMONG THE SPIRITS 41
ON THE WING 49
THE OCTOROON 54
EXPERIENCE AS AN EDITOR 62
OBERLIN 64
THE SHOWMAN'S COURTSHIP 69
THE CRISIS 74
WAX FIGURES vs. SHAKSPEARE 82
AMONG THE FREE LOVERS 86
SCANDALOUS DOINGS AT PITTSBURG 91
A VISIT TO BRIGHAM YOUNG 95
THE CENSUS 103
AN HONEST LIVING 106
THE PRESS 107
EDWIN FORREST AS OTHELLO 111
THE SHOW BUSINESS AND POPULAR LECTURES 117
WOMAN'S RIGHTS 119
WOULD-BE SEA DOGS 123
ON “FORTS.” 124
-- x --
[figure description] Contents Page. Page x.[end figure description]
PICCOLOMINI 130
LITTLE PATTI 135
MOSES THE SASSY 141
THE PRINCE OF WALES 148
OSSAWATOMIE BROWN 157
JOY IN THE HOUSE OF WARD 163
CRUISE OF THE POLLY ANN 170
INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN 176
THE SHOW IS CONFISCATED 189
THRILLING SCENES IN DIXIE 198
FOURTH OF JULY ORATION 206
THE WAR FEVER IN BALDINSVILLE 217
INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE NAPOLEON 223
MISCELLANEOUS.
MARION:—A ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH SCHOOL 235
LETTER FROM A GORY MEMBER OF THE HOME GUARD 241
EAST SIDE THEATRICALS 244
SOLILOQUY OF A LOW THIEF 250
SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS 253
THE WIFE 261
A JUVENILE COMPOSITION 263
A POEM BY THE SAME 264
-- --
[figure description] Tissue Paper.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Tissue Paper.[end figure description]
-- --
New England Rum, and its Effects. [See Page 214.]
[figure description] 482EAF. Illustration page. Two cartoon images of a drunken man. The first is the portly
man lying on the side of the road talking to a smiling stranger. The
second is of the man passed out and being attacked by geese.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[figure description] List of Illustrations. Page xv.[end figure description]
FRONTISPIECE—ARTEMUS WARD FOR THE UNION 4
NEW ENGLAND RUM 11
THE SHAKERS 22
“ON THE WING.” 48
THE CRISIS 76
VISIT TO BRIGHAM YOUNG 94
EDWIN FORREST AS OTHELLO 110
ON “FORTS.” 126
MOSES THE SASSY 140
JOY IN THE HOUSE OF WARD 162
INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN 178
THE SHOW IS CONFISCATED 188
PICCOLOMINI, A CHILD OF THE REGIMENT 208
THE WAR FEVER IN BALDINSVILLE 216
MEMBER OF THE HOME GUARD 240
EAST SIDE THEATRICALS 248
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
-- --
At the Door of the Tent.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Show is about to
commence. You could not well expect to go in
without paying, but you may pay without going
in. I can say no fairer than that.
[figure description] Epigraph.[end figure description]
-- --
[figure description] Blank Page.[end figure description]
Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867 [1862], Artemus Ward, his book. With many comic illustrations. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf482T].
