The Welcome Friend; comprising a Choice Selection of Entertaining and Instructive Sketches. Now First Collected.

Singerman ID
supp3044
Year
1858
Entry
The Welcome Friend; comprising a Choice Selection of Entertaining and Instructive Sketches. Now First Collected. Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1858. 309 p.
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Holdings
CtY
DLC
MWA
ViU
Title
The Welcome Friend; comprising a Choice Selection of Entertaining and Instructive Sketches. Now First Collected.
Language
English
Printer/Publisher
H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss
Notes
"Story of the Baked Head": pp. [7]-29 (a bizarre tale centered on the severed heads of a Turk and a Jew); "The Fall of the Janissaries": pp. [199]-216 (setting is Constantinople and includes a Jewish porter). A perfect copy has a frontispiece.
Collection
Chronological File, 1676 to 1900

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