Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. Harper's Literary Museum: A Compendium of Instructive, Entertaining and Amusing Matter selected from Early American Writings; Being the First of a Series of Volumes covering also other Literatures and Times, Designed by George Boas. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. [10973]
Brick cloth spine with tan boards, original printed paper title label to spine, some edge-wear, 9 1/4 x 6 inches. ix, [3], 412, [1], clean pp., ribbon marker, illustrated with woodcuts. Front free end paper creased; no dust jacket. Good. Hardcover.
Selections, the majority of which are from the colonial period of the 17th & 18th centuries. The include Puritan and other religious writings.
The main divisions are A New Nation; The Times Recorded; The Traveller in New York; Women; For the Children; Forecasting the Future; Concerning Weathers; and Advertisements.
"After the fashion of the once popular Literary Annual, this volume presents a miscellaneous exhibit of material chosen from early American writings. Selections have been made not only from books, but also from broadsides and newspapers, literary merit being no requirement for the inclusion...With a few exceptions, preference has been given to the less familiar records of the early days, to the exclusion of matter frequently reprinted in compilations of this sort." - Preface.
