Bradish, Sarah P. Good Times Out West; Sixteen Illustrations by Mary A. Lathbury, Boz, and others. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882. First Edition. [10767]
Teal cloth, faded decoration in brown & gilt, 6 x 4 1/2 inches, front end papers with thin tide mark at edges, none elsewhere. 62 unnumbered pages plus illustrations; frontispiece signed "Mary." Text is generally clean with a few smudges; foxing to the end papers. Good. Hardcover.
By Sarah P. Bradish "And other stores by famous authors."
A scarce title with WorldCat locating only four library holdings.
Illustrations by Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841-1913), American poet, hymnwriter, and artist. She taught art and was a frequent contributor to religious periodicals, and was known as "the poet laureate of Chautauqua."
The wood engraver of the illustrations was Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887), a specialist in scientific illustrations who was based in Washington, DC. Nichols was the illustrator for many government reports of science and exploration. He made many engravings of the American Indians of the West, for various Ethnology Reports.
Includes Playing Indian; Jack's Jokes; What Charley Saw; "Old Abe"; Jealous Polly; Brave Mr. Bluebird; Ned; Mrs. Oriole; Rob's Queer Friend; The Snowball Family; The Troubles of Pigeon Blue.
Sarah Powers Bradish (1867-1922), a graduate of Ripon College (1871), American author of Old Norse Stories, Stories of Country Life, and others. She was the Wisconsin State Secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
