1834 Henry Tudor Esq Narrative Of A Tour In Mexico And Cuba Waldie's Select Circulating Library, Volume 3

1834 Henry Tudor esq Narrative of a Tour in Mexico and Cuba Walde's Library v3.
1834 Waldie's Select Circulating Library, Volume 3 pages 211-238; Disbound and somewhat loose, all pages present, clean, and bright with very light tone. some edge corner wear, large 4to.

Reference: 206-209Measures: 11.25 by 9 inches, pages 211 to 238 complete.

"Narrative of A Tour in Mexico and of an Excursion to Cuba, in a series of letters written in the year 1831-2 by Henry Tudor, Esq. Barrister at Law. Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, No. 6, North Eight Street, Philadelphia- At $5 for 52 numbers, payable in advance. Waldie’s Selected Circulating Library was published and is contained in 14 volumes from 1832-1845. Adam Waldie was a publisher in Philadelphia and published the Waldie’s Select Circulating Library; Waldie’s Omnibus, and The American Medical Library and Intelligencer. A Concentrated Record of Medical Science and Literature. Adam Waldie’s advertisement for Waldie’s Omnibus; “A NEW AND CHEAP PERIODICAL. Attention is requested from our reader to the following prospectus for a new, and even a cheaper book periodical, which will be issued from this office in the first week of next January. It will not be in convenient a form for binding as the present, with which it will in no way interfere, but it will make books cheap beyond all precedent. It will contain the works of the day, which are much sought after, but are comparatively dear, and which cannot penetrate the interior in any mode half so rapidly as by mail, in which volumes of books are prohibited. A fifty cent American reprint will be furnished entire for from four to six cents: a Marryat novel for twelve cents, and others in proportion. As but a few copies will be printed but what are subscribed for, those who wish the Omnibus, must make their remittances at once. Books and Newspaper Postage. WALDIE’S LITERARY OMNIBUS. NOVEL AND IMPORTANT LITERARY ENTERPRISE!!! NOVELS, TALES, BIOGRAPHY, VOYAGES, TRAVELS, REVIEW, AND THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The words ‘tomato juice’ were first printed in the US in Waldie’s Selected Circulating Library in 1839. “1839, The Select Circulating Library, v 13, p 1, Philadelphia: Adam Waldie. There were the delicate keftas, and lastly, the national pillauf, richly coloured with tomato juice, and flavoured with quails.”
Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art (Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, for E. Littell; New York: G. &C. & H. Carvill, with editorial note stating that it had been taken over by ‘Mr. Waldie’ in November 1834. An excerpt from Adam Waldie and the circle of friends he had in Philadelphia.

Text: Hyman Pollock Rosenbach, “Reminiscences of Edgar A. Poe,” American (Philadelphia, PA), vol. XIII, whole no. 342, February 26, 1897, 13:296
[page 296, column 1, continued:]
REMINISCENCES OF EDGAR A POE.
IN THE AMERICAN for September 11, 1886, in an article on “Tom Moore’s Cottage,” I quoted Mr. Horace Wemyss Smith as speaking of a supper party at the house of his father, Richard Penn Smith, about 1837, the entertainment being given by the latter to Edgar A. Poe, “who had been introduced into Philadelphia society by the well-known comedian, William E. Burton, who had lately employed him as assistant editor upon his magazine, — the Gentleman’s, afterwards Graham’s.” Mr. Smith has kindly communicated to me his reminiscences of Poe, which I here record”.
“At this supper party were present Louis A. Godey, then owner and editor of Godey’s Magazine, which had been started above five years previously; Robert M. Bird; Robert T. Conrad, editor of the Daily Intelligencer; Joseph R. Chandler, editor of the United States Gazette; Joseph C. Neal; Morton McMichael, then an alderman in Spring Garden; Adam Waldie, publisher of Waldie’s Circulating Library, and a few others. Owing to the engagements of Mr. Burton at the Chestnut Street Theatre, the supper was not placed upon the table until midnight, at which time Mr. Burton, Mr. Wemyss, Mr. Wood and Mr. John R. Scott made their appearance. Edwin Forrest — who had but lately returned from England with his wife — was also present”.
“My father’s house was on Sixth above Willow Street. The guests who had first assembled were entertained on the first floor, where they awaited the coming of the theatrical people, before ascending to the dining-room on the second floor. When the time came to go up, Poe had so often visited the sideboard placed in the lower room that it was with great difficulty he was assisted upstairs, and when he was seated was in no condition either to entertain or be entertained”.

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