Robert Merry's Museum. S. G. Goodrich, editor. Illustrated. 1st Edition. Volume top XVII - XVIII.
Merry's Museum (1841–1872) was an illustrated children's magazine established by Samuel Griswold Goodrich in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1841. Louisa May Alcott served as editor for a year or so, and also contributed stories, as did Lucretia Peabody Hale, Caroline M. Hewins, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, Helen W. Pierson, and others.
Goodrich continued to oversee the magazine until 1854. For some time it was published in New York. In 1868, Boston's Horace B. Fuller bought the enterprise, and remained as publisher until 1872, when the magazine ceased.
Editors included Goodrich (1841–1850); Rev. S.T. Allen (ca.1850); and Alcott top (ca.1868–1870). Among the many contributors were Mary Bedford; Katherine Bertha; Emer Birdsey; Kitty Carroll; Margaret Field; Lilian Louise Gilbert; E.B. Greene; Mary B. Harris; Annie Moore; Anna North; Annie Phillips; Mary N. Prescott; Rose Scott; M.G. Sleeper; Olive Thorne; and Elisabeth A. Thurston.
Vol. XVII contains "Anecdotes of Birds", pg. 129 - 133; an exposition on "Dwarfs", pg. 168 - 174; and "Billy Bump in Boston", pg. 184-188, among various other shorter pieces. Vol. XVIII contains "The Caravan", pg. 4 - 14; additional "Billy Bump in Boston", pg. 20 - 22 & 58 - 60; "The Fairy Mignonne", pg. 52 - 56, 72 - 75 & 108 - 114; "Billy Bump Off for California", pg. 84 - 86, 120 - 124, 154 - 158 & 177 - 181; and "Two Letters from the Moon!", pg. 147 - 152, among other interesting tales.
Very rare, in any condition.
D. MacDonald & Co., Boston, 1849.
1st Edition, 1st Printing.
Volume XVII - XVIII.
Profusely illustrated with line-drawings & woodcuts throughout.
Good copy.
1/8th leather/brown marble boards, leather corners, brown-paper endpapers, gilt letters. Spine bumping, head & foot, corners worn, split & frayed. Gilt spine letters are worn & hard to read. Various small blemishes throughout, but text is clear & legible. Previous owner has done a little arithmetic, in pencil, at inside bottom of back board - two other short pencil markings. Page-edges are a little browned, but text paper is remarkably white considering book's age. Tightly bound. 188 pages.