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Book Illustrator's Account Book
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Account Book, 1853-1875
F.O.C. Darley (1822-1888) was one of the most popular and influential book American book illustrators of the nineteenth century. Authors whose works were published in the United Stated with images by Darley include Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Charles Dickens.
This volume details Darley's commissions and fees over
a period of more than two decades, beginning in 1853, the year the
artist was elected to the National Academy of Design.
Purchased from Jean's Book Service; Stoddard Fund and General Library
Acquisitions II Fund.
- Thomas G. Knoles, Curator of Manuscripts
"One day I am visited by a collector of ordination sermons; the next, by
a collector of 4th of July orations; then comes a collector of geography;
another wants religious newspapers; another wants every book printed in
New York before 1700. I accommodate myself to all; for I want every thing
and collect every thing, and I have more zeal than the whole of them: and
in this way I am kept very busy."
~Christopher Columbus Baldwin
3rd Librarian of AAS
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