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(SLOAN, JOHN / CORELL PRESS.) Prospectus for Corell Press publication John-a-Dreams Volume 1, Number 0. Cover woodcut illustration in orange and black, by Sloan, signed in the plate, lower right; 11 small in-text illustrations likely by Booth Tarkington but possibly also by Sloan. [1], [6], [1] pages on laid paper. Small 8vo, green string-tied printed wrappers; subscription card and folded printed mission statement sheet from the editors accompany the prospectus. New York, October [1896]
fine copy of the rare prospectus for Booth Tarkington's short-lived magazine "for the conservative iconoclast and the practical dreamer, devoted to mere literature and to classical typography." Tarkington began the magazine during his first two years out of college, wrote most of the pieces for it, and made himself the staff artist, often signing under his nom-de-plume "Cecil Woodford." Both Sloan and Tarkington were in New York and contributed to McClure's Magazine in 1892 where they likely struck up a friendship. Sloan's illustrations appear on the covers of subsequent John-a-Dreams issues, but Tarkington's illustrations illustrate the contents. The Sloan image is recorded in Elizabeth H. Hawkes's "John Sloan's Illustrations in Magazines and Books," Delaware Art Museum, 1993. Not in Morse (John Sloan's Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters, New Haven 1969; reprinted by Wofsy, 2001). The Houghton Library has a copy of the prospectus as does Wichita State University Libraries in their Archives of the Corell Publishing Company.
