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Ballou s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. M. M. Ballou, Publishers. Volumes X & XI: January - December, 1856, (Whole Series No. 235 - No. 286). 416 p/volume. 52 journal editions total, BEAUTIFUL & professional restored binding measuring 15 x 11 , 4tos. In fair condition. Cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and corners. Restored cloth spines lightly rubbed at heads and tails, but overall tight and intact. Original binding pasted-on over modern cloth, gilt lettering and ruling lightly dulled but legible. Gilt deco and lettering on front boards bright and clean. Light toning throughout text-blocks, with some instances of finger-soiling or age-staining. Off-setting found at top edges of pages 304-5 in Vol. X. Modern preliminary pages clean. Ownership signature, in pencil, found at top edge of Vol. X, No. 1. Some sparse pencil marginalia throughout text-blocks. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Maturin Murray Ballou (1820 1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial, was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe, and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction. In 1851, Ballou and Frederick Gleason established the weekly paper Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. It was inspired by The Illustrated London News. The first issue appeared on May 3, 1851, and declared: "The object of this paper is to present, in the most elegant and available form, a weekly literary melange of notable events of the day. Its columns are devoted to original tales, sketches, and poems, by the best American authors, and the cream of the domestic and foreign news; the whole well-spiced with wit and humor." In November 1854, Ballou bought out Gleason and changed the paper's name to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Around 1857 Ballou's publishing enterprise in Boston operated from 22 Winter Street, in a building constructed in 1856. ".The building housed on its first two main floors the editorial and business offices of the publisher Maturin Murray Ballou. The basement held the 12 steam-powered presses that each week brought forth, among other publications, more than 100,000 copies of a 16-page, profusely illustrated journal, Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Engravers occupied the 3rd floor, working at desks by the windows. Atop the building's 4 storeys rose an attic crowned with a large light-admitting lantern. This lantern illuminated the room that Ballou had provided for the graphic artists who contributed to his Companion." Illustrators who worked for Ballou included John Andrew, Charles A. Barry, W.L. Champney, John Chapin, William Croome, Charles Damoreau, George Devereux, Winslow Homer, Frank Leslie, John Manning, Emile Masson, Samuel Worcester Rowse, William Wade, Alfred Waud, William Waud. COMPLETE YEAR (1856)! Clean copies. Gift quality. FORN-SHELF-0697-BB-2408-HK2011. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers FORN-SHELF-0697-BB-2408-HK2011
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