Parley, Peter; [Goodrich, Samuel Griswold]. Famous Men of Modern Times: by the author of Peter Parley's Tales. Boston: Rand and Mann, 1849. [12402]
Black cloth with blind-stamped boards, elaborate gilt illustrations to spine, "Cabinet Library" and title in gilt to spine, minor fraying at spine top, light edge-wear. Lacks the first front free end paper (blank). Woodcut plates on peach-colored paper of the Walter Scott Monument, and of Napoleon at the Age of Twenty-two. Additional woodcut plates and text illustrations within. 315 pp. plus publisher's adverts. There is a dampstain in the bottom half of most pages, mostly light, dark towards the end of the book, and dark on the closed page edges. The photos will give you a good idea of it. Fair. Hardcover.
"In the following pages, the author has attempted to give the lives of several great men of modern times; MEN OF POWER - those who still live among us by their writings, their fame, their examples, and thus continue to exert an influence on society." - Preface.
The men are Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Napoleon Bonaparte, Göthe, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, John Milton, William Shakspere, Lord Bacon, and Cervantes.
Samuel Griswold Goodrich, alias Peter Parley, (1793-1860); born in Connecticut. Goodrich was a prolific author and publisher of children’s books.
“How greatly parents have been aided and encouraged – as well as children instructed and delighted – through the earlier volumes of Parley’s Magazine, Merry’s Museum, Parley’s Cabinet Library, and his numberless volumes of many kinds, who shall estimate?” – Allibone.
Goodrich was appointed Consul to Paris by President Fillmore.
