Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PERIODICALS.) Yankee Notions, or Whittlings of Jonathan's Jack-Knife. 2 colored frontispieces and a profusion of text illustrations. 24 issues, bound as Volumes I and II. iv, 379, [1]; [2], 382 (of 384) pages, 4to, original illustrated wrappers, worn with restoration at hinges; second frontispiece laid down to inner wrapper, minor wear and foxing to contents, lacking final leaf and rear wrapper of Volume II. New York, 1852-53

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"The not so highly regarded but longest running humor periodical of its time. Edited and published by T.W. Strong, it is profusely illustrated with original woodcut cartoons"--Lomazow 593.