Description
First edition of Kings of the Platform and Pulpit by Melville D. Landon, published in 1900.
Large octavo, xviii, 19-570pp. Full gray cloth, decorative gilt and black embellishments stamped to cover and spine. Title in gilt on cover and spine. Patterned endpapers, red speckled edges. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, bumped corners, light rubbing to cloth along spine, internally fine. Profusely illustrated throughout. A nice example of a unique volume compiling hundreds of works by notable Americans of the 19th century.
Full title reads: Kings of the Platform and Pulpit. Biographies, Reminiscences and Lectures of Artemus Ward, Sam Cox, Bill Arp, Mark Twain, Robert Burdette, George W. Peck, Nasby, Mrs. Partington, Doesticks, Josh Billings, Danbury News Man, Bill Nye, Bret Harte, Geo. W. Cable, Fat Contributor, Eli Perkins. And the Master Lectures of T. DeWitt Talmage, Dwight L. Moody, Sam Jones, Chauncey M. Depew, Robert G. Ingersoll, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, Chas. H. Spurgeon, Ben Butler, Jos. Cook, Eugene Field, Horace Greeley, Max O’Rell, Joseph Parker, Robt. Collyer. And Personal Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Noted Americans.
