Cartoons.
New York: De Witt Publishing House, 1898. First printing. Hardcover. Full page cartoons reprinted from Harper's Weekly and the New York Journal. Includes cartoons about the Spanish-American War, Tammany Hall, Queen Victoria's jubilee, Randolph Hearst and American politics especially tariffs.
"From 1896 until 1904, Homer Davenport (1867-1912) was William Randolph Hearst's favorite political cartoonist. Starting out in small papers in his native Oregon, Davenport worked his way up to become one of the highest paid political cartoonists of the late-19th and early 20th Century. In response to his inflammatory cartooning during the 1896 Presidential Election, an 1897 Anti-Cartoon Bill was aimed at Davenport, introduced in the New York legislature. Though never put into law, such was Davenport's effect on the political climate that his work generated an attempt to abridge the First Amendment rights of newspapers. Hearst extensively used Davenport's cartooning as part of Hearst's 'Yellow Journalism' in an effort to involve the US in the Spanish-American War." Wikipedia
Folio, (12"x 16-1/2"), 102pp, gray pictorial cloth, with the bound cartoons loose in the boards. The signature of Gertrude Whiting on the front free end paper. Boards rubbed at edges with the back cover cloth peeling from the foredge. Cartoons in VG condition. OCLC: 1356802. Good + overall. Item #26929
Price: $225.00