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An Alphabet of Celebrities by Oliver Herford , printed in 1899 in Boston. Oliver Herford (1863-1935), English-born American poet, illustrator, artist and wit published over 50 volumes of light verse and prose. He has been called "The American Oscar Wilde" and was a frequent contributor to Life and Ladies Home Journal. Oliver Brooke Herford was born in Sheffield, England. His father was a well-known Unitarian minister, editor, and writer who moved the family to Chicago, Illinois when Oliver was twelve. Oliver went to school in Lancaster, England until he enrolled at Antioch College in Ohio in 1877. He wanted training in art and, after studying in Chicago and Boston, he attended Slade School in London and then studied at Julian's in Paris. Oliver then returned to the United States, and lived in New York City for the next thirty years. His home was not far from the Player's Club, of which he became a member and often displayed his ability in comedy. Oliver was a very modest, shy person, and his friends sometimes called him "Elf", "Peter Pan", or "Ariel". He was said to have always seen a humorous side in anything said or done, and his thoughts were "swift and shrewd". His choice of words was short and simple, like his description of a pest, "a man who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does." Many of his sayings are in dictionaries of similes and quotations. He was a master of both writing and illustration, especially of young women, children, and animals, which were said to be his best topic. The New York Times summed him up by calling him "intelligent, and well-bred what with his animals and his children and his artistic simplicities he was remote from the style of the best moderns. No violence, or obscenity, not even obscurity or that long windedness which is the signet of the illustration writers today." This volume "An Alphabet of Celebrities" was the first edition -the second edition followed in 1900. There were two thousand copies printed for each edition. It features charming caricatures of important historical and artistic figures. Each illustration with decorative border is accompanied by rhyme in the same graphic. (The rhyme is a facsimile on paper with an antique parchment finish) These prints are both charming and unusual.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 1422 |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
1899
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| Height:
8.5 in. (21.59 cm) |
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Width: 6.75 in. (17.15 cm)
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| Title:
C is for Columbus |
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