Rare Books - Material Culture Data Table

Date	Location	Author	Title	Pedagogical Uses
1559	London		Fabian’s Chronicles	British Renaissance Text Production Renaissance History Gothic type before transition to Roman type
1623	London	Speed, John	The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons,Danes, and Normans	Late British Renaissance Text Production Renaissance History
1676	London	Hooker, Richard	The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, compleated out of his own Manuscripts with several other Treatises by the Same Author, and an Account of his Life and Death	17th-century British Text Production British Theology Dedications Biography Reprint Culture
1715	London	Pope, Alexander	The Iliad of Homer translated by Mr. Pope	18th-Century British Text Production Classical Works in Translation Canonicity Publication through Subscription Marketing
1755	London	Johnson, Samuel	Johnson’s Dictionary	18th-Century British Text Production History of Dictionaries and Language Canonicity
1775	London	Wood, Robert	An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer	18th-Century British Text Production Status of Western Canon Illustration See Stewart Plein's Notes
1795	Boston	Brady, Nicholas and Tate, Nahum	A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches	18th-Century American Text Production Religious Culture British Texts Circulating in America See Stewart Plein's Notes
1804	London		Boydell’s Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare	19th-Century British Text Production Canonicity of Shakespeare Marketing of Illustrations and Engravings
1839	New York	Anonymous	Six Weeks in Fauquier. Being the Substance of a Series of Familiar Letters	19th-Century American Text Production Vacation/Travel Literature
1839	New York	Sargent, Epes	Velasco	19th-Century American Text Production American Drama
1840	London	Dickens, Charles	Master Humphrey’s Clock	19th-Century British Text Production Marketing and Compilations Illustration History
1845	Philadelphia	Janeway, J.J.	The Internal Evidence of the Holy Bible or the Bible Proved from its Own Pages to be Divine Revelation	19th-Century American Text Production Religious Culture Book as Gift
1846	Philadelphia	Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer	Elinor Fulton	19th-Century American Text Production Conduct Literature Advertising and Marketing of Books
1849	New York	Smith, Elbert H.	Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak; or Black Hawk, and Scenes in the West. A National Poem in Six Cantos	19th-Century American Text Production Representations of Native Americans Development of American Historical Narrative Nationalism Poetry
1851	Philadelphia / Wheeling	De Hass, Wills	History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia	19th-Century American Text Production Representations of Native Americans Development of American Historical Narrative Illustration
1855	New York	Irving , Washington	Wolfert’s Roost	19th-Century American Text Production Advertising and Marketing Illustration
1855	New York	Pickering, George (pseudonym: George P. Burnham)	The Rag-Picker; or Bound and Free	19th-Century American Text Production Representations of Class
1859	New York	Cooke, John Esten	Henry St. John, Gentleman of Flower of Hundreds in the County of Prince George, Virginia. A Tale of 1774-1775	19th-Century American Text Production Nostalgia Uses of History in Fiction Marketing
1859	London	Rickard, William	The Miner’s Manual of Arithmetic and Surveying	19th-Century British Text Production Mining and Engineering Maps Publication through Subscription
1863	New York	Kirke, Edmund	My Southern Friends	19th-Century American Text Production Civil War Culture Marketing, Pricing and Advertising
1870	New Haven	Benedict, Henry H.	The Coal Dealer’s Ready Reckoner	19th-Century American Text Production Mining; Advertising
1875	Boston	Tennyson, Lord Alfred	Queen Mary, A Drama	19th-Century American Text Production British Texts Circulating in America Advertising and Marketing
1880	London	Gilchrist, Alexander	Life of William Blake with Selections from his poems and other writings	19-Century British Text Production Canon Formation Illustration Editions
1882	New York	Carleton, Will	Farm Ballads	19th-Century American Text Production Ideology of Country Illustrations
1883	New York	Black, William	Green Pastures and Piccadilly	19th-Century American Text Production
1883	Boston	Trowbridge, J.T.	Phil and His Friends	19th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature Advertising, Pricing, and Marketing
1885	Pittsburgh	Winslow, W.H.	Cruising and Blockading. A Naval Story of the Late War	Late 19th-Century American Text Production History and Literature
1885	New York	Leavitt, John McDowell	Kings of Capital and the Knights of Labor	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Economics Class Ideologies
1885	New York	Carleton, Will	City Ballads	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Rural/Urban Ideology Marketing, especially of the Canon
1888	New York	Bruce, Wallace	Old Homestead Poems	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Literary Appropriations Canonicity Nostalgia
1888	Cincinnati	Adams, Emma H.	To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, with Sketches in Arizona, New Mexico, and British Columbia	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Travel Literature Constructions of the American West
1888	Portland , ME	Griffith, George B	The Poets of Maine. A Collection of Specimen Poems from over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine Tree State with Biographical Sketches	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Canon Formation
1892	London	Dobson, Austin	The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century	19th-Century British Text Production Representations of the British 18th Century Canonicity Advertising Illustration
1893	New York	Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schyler	Art Out of-Doors. Hints on Good Taste in Gardening	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Gardening and Environment Gender Epigraphs Advertisements See Stewart Plein's Notes
1895	Boston	Clement, Clara Erskine	Constantinople : The City of the Sultans	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Travel Literature Orientalism and the Exotic Illustrations
1896	Boston / New York	Harris, Joel Chandler	Mr. Rabbit at Home	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature Marketing of the Author
1898	Boston / New York	Warner, Charles Dudley	My Summer in A Garden	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Country Ideology Illustrations
1899	New York	Holmes, Oliver Wendell	The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Text Design American Poetry
1901	New York	Field, Eugene	A Little Book of Tribune Verse. A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay	Early 20th-Century American Text Production American Poetry Advertising and Marketing
1904	New York	Dunbar, Paul Laurence	Li’l’ Gal	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Representations of African Americans Illustration
1905	Philadelphia	Gautier, Theophile	Russia	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Travel Literature Orientalism and the Exotic Illustration
1907	New York/London	Cabell, James Branch	Gallantry: An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Representations of the British 18th Century Nostalgia Magazine Publication Illustration
1907	New York	Van Dyke, Henry	Days Off and Other Digressions	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Marketing
1908	New York/London	Tarkington, Booth and Harry Leon Wilson	The Man from Home	Early 20th-Century American Text Production American Drama Production History Photography
1909	New York	Cable, George W.	“Posson Jone” and Pere Raphael with a New Word Setting Forth How and Why the Two Tales are One	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Illustration
1910	Boston	Harris, Joel Chandler	Uncle Remus and the Little Boy	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature representations of African Americans Illustration
1916	Boston / New York	Wiggin, Kate Douglas	The Romance of A Christmas Card	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature Advertising Illustration