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• Author/Creator:Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, author, illustrator, publisher.
  
• Title:The valley of the Mississippi : illustrated in a series of views / edited by Lewis Foulk Thomas ; painted and lithographed by J.C. Wild ; accompanied with historical descriptions ...
  
• Publication:St. Louis, Mo. : Published by the artist. Printed by Chambers and Knapp, 1841 [that is, 1841-1842]
  
• Physical Description:145 pages, [35] leaves of plates (4 folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: F353 .W55 1841+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Zc20 +841wib
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN Zc20 +841wib: Imperfect: original wrappers, p.71-[84], 99-114, [131]-145 and 22 plates (plates 1-3, VI, XIII, the plan. between XIV and XV, and all after XVI) wanting; collation reconstructed from a facsim. ed. (St. Louis : J. Garnier, 1948) of a variant copy.
  BAC: British Art Center copy bound in brown quarter morocco with green marbled boards. Bookplate: George Oliver Clark. British Art Center copy complete, including part title pages.
  
• Notes:The title page is lithographed.
  Published monthly in 9 numbers from July 1841 to Mar. 1842, with an extra number for Sept. 1841. Title pages of the individual number differ slightly from the lithographed tile page.
  "Published monthly in numbers, each number containing four views, at $1 per number."--Title page.
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:Plates: View of St. Louis from the Illinois Shore -- Cathedral, St. Louis -- St. Louis Court House -- Theatre, St. Louis -- Old Chouteau Mansion, St. Louis, Mo. -- St. Louis University and Church of St. Francis Xavier -- Interior of the Church of St. Francis Xavier -- View of St. Charles, Missouri -- View of Carandolet (Vuide Poche) -- View of Alton, Illinois -- Monk's Mound, St. Clair Col., Illinois -- Jefferson Barracks -- St. Louis Medical College. Medical Department of Kemper College -- St. Louis Fire Company -- View of Kaskaskia, Ill.. -- Ruins of Fort Chartres [followed by] Plan of Fort Chartres -- View of the U.S. Arsenal, in the vicinity of St. Louis -- Falling Spring near Cahokia, Illinois -- Piasau Rock, Alton, Illinois -- Mouth of the Missouri River, from Illinois -- Prairie on fire -- St. Charles College, Missouri -- Cairo, Illinois -- Grand Tower & Devil's Bake Oven, on the Miss. River -- View of Selma, Missouri -- Barbeau's Creek, Prairie Du Rocher, Illinois -- Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo. -- Cahokia, Illinois -- St. Louis Hospital, Missouri -- View at Illinois Tower. [Four unnumbered views of St. Louis as seen from South, East, North, and West.]
  
• References:Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 103972
  
• Subjects:Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.
  Saint Louis (Mo.)--Description and travel.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1841-1842.
  Missouri. Saint Louis. 1841.
  Roberts, George Simon, 1860-.--Presentation inscription to G. Hough, 1841.
  Hough, George--Presentation inscription from G.S. Roberts, 1841.
  Clark, George Oliver--Bookplate.
  
• Genre/Form:Lithographs--1841-1842.
  
• Also listed under:Thomas, Lewis Foulk, 1808-1868, editor.
  Chambers, Knapp & Co., printer.