Group of 1874 Harper’s With Both Winslow and Nast

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/1/2017

Group of 20 issues disbound Harper’s Weekly editions from 1874. These are from previously bound volume and in great shape. These lots are particularly desireable for the incomparable THOMAS NAST artwork on covers and inside full page presentations and a couple of WINSLOW HOMER offerings). Jan. 10: Nast cover related to the “Virginus” case that the U.S. flag protects any vessel that carries it upon the high seas. More art/text inside. Small Nast, “The Secretary of War has caught a thief.” Feb. 14: Cover collage art of rich vs. poor. (non-Nast). Inside full page Nast, “Parepa Rosa,” grieving at the grave. Portrait art of Hon. Robert Elliott, “unmixed African” congressman from SC. Small Nast, “Fine-Ass Committee.” With ragged supplement. March 21: Inside art on the Temperance Crusade with pair of full pages related to the curse of the grape: one a Nast on “The Bar of Destruction.” The other “The Social Juggernaut” by M. Woolf. Collage art/text on “rag pickers.” Smaller Nast depicting bottle of rum restrained by ball and chain carrying two pails of water.May 9: Cover tribute to President Grant and the Veto of the inflation bill. Inside full page Nast, “The Power of the Press.” May 16: Cover by Nast, “The Cradle of Liberty Out of Danger.” Double truck Nast, “A General Blow-Up -- Dead Asses Kicking A Live Lion.” Interesting inside art page, “Indians Killing Buffalo in the Missouri River.”May 23, 1874: Nast cover, “The Next Thing In Order.” Inside Nast full page, “Public Opinion, April 22, 1874.” Pair of engravings from the wild west, an “Indian Grave” and “Antelope Hunting.” Double truck, “May Day in Merrie England.” Small Nast, “Inflation Is As Easy as Lying.” May 30: Nast cover, “There is nothing mean about US.” Double truck collage on “smelting ore in Oregon.” Inside art from the west, “A prairie windstorm.” Small Nast, “The Arab and the Camel.” July 4: Nast cover, “An Inflation Opinion.” Tall Nast double truck, “Let Us Be Thankful,” (Congress adjourns). Small Nast, “Laying Down the Law.” Interesting medical-related art page, “The Transfusion of Blood.” July 18: Nast cover, “Don’t Let Us Have Any More of this Nonsense.” Inside: Gold and silver mining in the west. Small Nast, “A Boston Street Scene” (children flee from Gen. Butler). Aug. 1: Impressive cover, “The College Regatta--The Winning Crew” (Columbia). Inside is a page devoted to “The Finish” of the Regatta along with smaller engravings and text. Magnificent double truck from a Currier & Ives print showing bird’s eye view of Chiago showing portion affected by the great fire. Some paper loss to right page. Full page Nast, “Caesarphobia.” (Paper loss not touching image). Small Nast, “Young America After the Comet’s Tail.” Aug. 22: Inside full page by WINSLOW HOMER, “Waiting For A Bite.” Full page Nast, “Who Ought to Have the Cardinal’s Hat In America?” Small Nast, “Reconstruction.”Aug. 29: Nast cover, “Freedom, Jubilee and Pardon. Sept. 19: Couple of great wild west scenes, a chief forbids passage of train through his land and another sketch of Indian warfare. Tall Nast doubletruck, “The Same Old Pirate Afloat Again” (KKK related). Inside full page WINSLOW HOMER, “Flirting on the Seashore and on the Meadow.”Sept. 26: Inside full page Nast, “The Commandments in South Carolina.” Oct. 10: Cover collage of the “Louisiana Outrages” (White League). Inside, scenes from the International Rifle Match. Small Nast, “Companions in Arms.” Oct. 24: Nast cover, “A Burden He Has to Shoulder” (Grant). Inside full page Nast: “The Hobby in the Kindergarten.” (James Gordon Bennett and Whitelaw Reid). Small Nast, untitled, shows White Leaguer and robed Klansman shaking hands over quivering blacks. Small Nast, “The Next Police Uniform Order.” Nov. 14: Double truck Nast, “International Law, The Better Way.” Small Nast, “Gold and Brass.” Dec. 5: Nast cover, “Now Gnaw Away.” Inside full page Nast, “On what does Cesar Feed...” tear across image. Dec. 19: Nast cover, “Shall Teachers’ Salaries Be Lowered?” Small Nast, “Fact and Fiction.”Dec. 26: Couple of full page images related to Christmas (non-Nast).

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