Research Catalog

Title

The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches / by Joseph G. Baldwin.

Author

Baldwin, Joseph G. (Joseph Glover), 1815-1864.

Publication

New-York : London : D. Appleton and Company, 1853.

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Additional Authors

• McLenan, John, 1827-1866
• Orr, John William, 1815-1887
• Baker, Samuel F.
• Orr, Nathaniel
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
• Swinton & Fay, engraver.

Description

x, 330 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Southern States > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
• Southern States > Fiction
• Mississippi > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
• Law > Southern States > Humor
• Alabama > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
• Law > Southern States > Anecdotes

Note

• "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1853, by D. Appleton & Company, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Plates illustrated by J.M.L. and engraved by J.W. Orr, Swinton & Fay, S.F. Baker, and N. Orr.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition)
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Ovid Bolus, Esq. -- My first appearance at the bar -- The bench and the bar -- How the times served the Virginians -- Assault and battery -- Simon Suggs, Jr., Esq., a legal biography -- Squire A. and the fritters -- Jonathan and the constable -- Sharp financiering -- Cave Burton, Esq., of Kentucky -- Justification after verdict -- An affair of honor -- Hon. S.S. Prentiss -- The bar of the south-west -- Hon. Francis Strother -- Mr. Tee and Mr. Gee -- Scan. Mag. -- An equitable set-off -- A cool rejoinder -- A hung court -- Samuel Hele, Esq. -- John Stout, Esq., and Mark Sullivan -- Mr. Onslow -- Jo. Heyfron -- Old Uncle John Olive -- Examining a candidate for license.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Baldwin, J. G. Flush times of Alabama)

LCCN

16009738

OCLC

• 2367951
• NYPGR2367951-B

Author

Baldwin, Joseph G. (Joseph Glover), 1815-1864.

Title

The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches / by Joseph G. Baldwin.

Imprint

New-York : London : D. Appleton and Company, 1853.

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 580

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 805

Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition), 1037

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 199

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-B (accession no. B593733) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-B has [2] p. of publishers' advertisements bound in at beginning, and [18] p. bound in at end. NN

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Added Author

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

McLenan, John, 1827-1866, illustrator.

Orr, John William, 1815-1887, engraver.

Swinton & Fay, engraver.

Baker, Samuel F., engraver.

Orr, Nathaniel, engraver.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Baldwin, J. G. Flush times of Alabama)

8-NBX (Baldwin, J. G. Flush times of Alabama)