Text, Part 1 -- The Tomahawk Man. Scholar Paul Hurh.
Covers of various 19th century magazines. These include Ladies' Companion Magazine, The Pioneer, Burton's Magazine, and The Broadway Journal.
A magazine cover. The design is minimalistic, like many of the period. It has a simple white background, a black rectangle drawn around the edges. In the center is an illustration of a hand writing something with a stylus, a simple black background blurring away gradually -- the white of the page and hand blend seamlessly into the white background of the cover. Text, The Stylus, A Monthly Journal of Literature Proper. The Fine Arts and the Drama. Aureus aliquando STYLUS, ferreus aliquando, Paulus Jovius. Edited by Edgar A. Poe.
Text, Excerpt from "A Mirror for Authors by Motley Manners [Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne] Holdens Dollar Magazine, January 1849. The text is illustrated with a silhouette caricature of an American Indian in a dance-like pose, one foot in the air and tomahawk held in hand. Text, With tomahawk upraised for deadly blow, Behold our literary Mohawk, Poe! Sworn tyrant he o’er all who sin in verse — His own the standard, damns he all that’s worse; And surely not for this shall he be blamed For worse than his deserves that it be damned! Who can so well detect the plagiary’s flaw? “Set thief to catch thief” is an ancient saw: Who can so scourge a fool to shreds and slivers? Promoted slaves oft make the best slave drivers! Iambic Poe! of tyro bards the terror — Ego is he — the world his pocket-mirror! Poe’s nor the worst of bards, though bad he is Poor man! his worst of sins is synthesis! Nor is he by great odds the worst of critics — Only he runs stark mad on analytics: Give him a dumpling, and he’ll hatch a thesis — Talk Choctaw to him — he’ll choke with diaeresis; If he lives long enough, we’ll find, per Hercle He’ll print the cabula, and square the circle! The mystic fates alone can tell how often he Means to dress up old flame in new cacophony!
Pages from Osborn's "Confessions of a Poet."
Cover pages to three books. On the left -- Norman Leslie, A Tale of the Present Times by Theodore S Fay. In the middle -- Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus and Miscellaneous Poems, by Rufus Dawes. On the right side -- an illustration of a bust of a man above cursive text reading, George Jones.
Air quotes around editor.
A cover page with text and a small illustration of religious figures including Moses and Jesus. Text, An Original History of Ancient America Founded upon the Ruins of Antiquity: The Identity of the Aborigines with the People of Tyrus and Israel: and the Introduction of Christianity by The Apostle St. Thomas. By GEORGE JONES, R.S.I: M.F.S.V: et cetera. Dedicated to his grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London. Harper & Brothers, New-York. Alexander Duncker, Berlin. & Frederick Kliencksieck, Paris. 1843.
Another title page. Text, THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT AMERICA, ANTERIOR TO THE TIME OF COLUMBUS; PROVING THE IDENTITY OF THE ABORIGINES WITH THE TYRIANS AND ISRAELITES; AND THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE BY THE APOSTLE ST. THOMAS. BY GEORGE JONES, M.R.S.I., F.S.V. THE TYRIAN ÆRA. SECOND EDITION. PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, LONDON; HARPER AND BROTHERS, NEW-YORK; ALEXANDER DUNCKER, BERLIN; AND FREDERICK KLINCKSIECK, PARIS. 1843.
Another title page. An illustration of Neptune sitting on an oyster shell drawn like a carriage by swimming horses. Text, VOLUME THE FIRST, OR THE TYRIAN ÆRA, IN TWO BOOKS. BOOK ONE. THE RUINS OF ANTIQUITY IN ANCIENT AMERICA, DESCRIBED AND ANALYZED; AND THE ORIGINAL ARCHITECTS IDENTIFIED, et cetera, BOOK TWO. THE SCRIPTURAL, POLITICAL, & COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF TYRUS, TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THAT KINGDOM BY ALEXANDER OF MACEDON; AND THE TYRIAN MIGRATION TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, IN THE YEAR 332 BEFORE CHRIST, et cetera.
The Original History of Ancient America.
The Tyrian Æra.
The first page of the book.
The bust of the man from the first cover -- a profile pose, dressed in ancient Greek clothing.
The illustration from the second cover page, a collage of various religious figures before a ship on the sea.
The illustration of Neptune.