CATLIN'S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, WITH HIS NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION. WITH ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS OF THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF THREE DIFFERENT PARTIES OF AMERICAN INDIANS WHOM HE INTRODUCED TO THE COURTS OF ENGLAN
Catlin, George:
London. 1848. Two volumes. xvi,296; xii,336pp. Twenty-four plates. Modern gilt red calf by Bayntun of Bath, spines gilt extra, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with original gilt pictorial cloth of each volume preserved and bound in at the rear. Front board of first volume detached, but present. Internally quite clean. Overall just about very good. A nice set of Catlin's European NOTES.... This work appeared just as Catlin's Indian Gallery reopened in London, only to be bashed by British critics who complained of "a recklessness and a roughness in some of his anecdotes" and "indelicate innuendoes and double entendres" (Dippie). Later printed under the title, ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM.... "Anecdotal though it is, NOTES is a readable and revealing book in the classic satirical vein of the visitor from a foreign culture commenting on the peculiarities of civilized society" - Dippie. SABIN 11533. FIELD 256. Dippie, CATLIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, pp.126-27 and passim.
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