Gleason's pictorial.
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Continuing resourcePublication details: Boston : F. Gleason, 1851-1854.; MASS. Boston. Description: 7 v. : ill., ports. ; 38-40 cmOther title: - Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion [Running title]
Editor: Maturin M. Ballou;
Vol. 1 no. 3 contians engraving and description of Miss Adelaide Phillipps in the breeches part of Cherry in "Cherry and Fair Star"; vol. 1 no. 6 also contains a description of this performance. Vol. 1 no. 28 contains engraving and description of Kate Bateman in a breeches part. Vol. 1 no. 15 contains portrait and description of Charlotte Cushman. Vol. 1 no. 29 contains portrait of Charlotte Cushman as Romeo.Linking Entry Note: Continued as Ballou's pictorial.Local Notes: Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2013, p. 65 - 67;
LIBRARY HAS: Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 3, 1851)-v. 7, no. 26 (Dec. 30, 1854). Dup. copies of v. 4-5 (Jan. 1-Dec. 24, 1853); v. 6, no. 5 (Feb. 4, 1854); v. 7, no. 7, 9, 17, 23 (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, Oct. 28, Dec. 9, 1854);
Library copy of v. 1 [12084.F] LACKING p. 43-44, 55-56, 107-108, 165-166;
Library copy of v. 1 [12084.F] -- Appears to be the first printed version of v. 1; printed within decorative borders in four columns. A later version of v.1, with significant textual differences, starts with v. 1, no. 1 (July 5, 1851); printed without decorative borders in three columns; contains advertisements for v. 1-3 "elegantly bound in cloth." The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a copy of a later version;
Library copy of v. 3 [12043.F] inscribed and stamped: Leonard Sayles;
In the Michael Zinman World's Fair Collection [11472.F].Local Added Entry - Personal Name: Zinman, Michael;
Sayles, Leonard, former owner.Imprint: MASS. Boston. 1852;
Gleason, Frederick, 1816-1896, publisher.Subject(s):
- Phillipps, Adelaide, 1833-1882 -- Portraits
- Bateman, Kate Josephine, 1843-1917 -- Portraits
- Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 -- Portraits
- Crystal Palace (New York, N.Y.)
- New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854)
- American literature -- Periodicals
- Breeches parts
- Male impersonators
- Lesbians
- LGBTQ+ actors
- Queer history
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Title from caption.
Editor: Maturin M. Ballou.
Vol. 1 no. 3 contians engraving and description of Miss Adelaide Phillipps in the breeches part of Cherry in "Cherry and Fair Star"; vol. 1 no. 6 also contains a description of this performance. Vol. 1 no. 28 contains engraving and description of Kate Bateman in a breeches part. Vol. 1 no. 15 contains portrait and description of Charlotte Cushman. Vol. 1 no. 29 contains portrait of Charlotte Cushman as Romeo.
Continued as Ballou's pictorial.
Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2013, p. 65 - 67.
LIBRARY HAS: Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 3, 1851)-v. 7, no. 26 (Dec. 30, 1854). Dup. copies of v. 4-5 (Jan. 1-Dec. 24, 1853); v. 6, no. 5 (Feb. 4, 1854); v. 7, no. 7, 9, 17, 23 (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, Oct. 28, Dec. 9, 1854).
Library copy of v. 1 [12084.F] LACKING p. 43-44, 55-56, 107-108, 165-166.
Library copy of v. 1 [12084.F] -- Appears to be the first printed version of v. 1; printed within decorative borders in four columns. A later version of v.1, with significant textual differences, starts with v. 1, no. 1 (July 5, 1851); printed without decorative borders in three columns; contains advertisements for v. 1-3 "elegantly bound in cloth." The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a copy of a later version.
Library copy of v. 3 [12043.F] inscribed and stamped: Leonard Sayles.
In the Michael Zinman World's Fair Collection [11472.F].