ANTIQUE (1881) BOOK, "GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORIES (ENGLAND)" BY S.G. GOODRICH

Description: ANTIQUE (1881) BOOK, "GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORIES (ENGLAND)" BY S.G. GOODRICH USED IN GOOD CONDITION COMMENSURATE WITH AGE AND USE. THE BOARDS, LEAVES, AND BINDING APPEAR TO BE IN GOOD ORDER. THE SPINE HAS SOME LOSS OF LEATHER. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE STILL QUITE BRIGHT AND CLEAR. NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF MOLD. A SUPER REFERENCE WORK FOR ANY INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND THROUGH A CONTEMPORARY 19TH-CENTURY VICTORIAN-ERA LENS. Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 – May 9, 1860), better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley, was an American author.BiographyCommemorative medal given to Goodrich for his work as the American consul in ParisGoodrich was born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, the son of a Congregational minister. Goodrich was largely self-educated, and became an assistant in a country store at Danbury, Connecticut, which he left in 1808, and later again at Hartford, Connecticut, until 1811. From 1816 to 1822 he was a bookseller and publisher in Hartford. He visited Europe from 1823 to 1824, and moved to Boston in 1826. In 1833 he bought 45 acres in nearby Roxbury and built a home in what is now Jamaica Plain. There he continued in the publishing business, and from 1828 to 1842 published an illustrated annual, The Token, to which he was a frequent contributor both in prose and verse. A selection from these contributions was published in 1841 under the title Sketches from a Students Window. The Token also contained some of the earliest work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lydia Maria Child. In 1841 he established Merry's Museum, which he continued to edit till 1854.Goodrich and his brother Charles wrote books for young people. His series, beginning in 1827 under the name of Peter Parley, embraced geography, biography, history, science and miscellaneous tales. Of these he was the sole author of only a few, but in 1857 he wrote that he was the author and editor of about 170 volumes, and that about seven millions had been sold. An English writer, George Mogridge, also used the name Peter Parley, raising objections from Goodrich, who had the prior claim.Reconstruction of Megalosaurus by Samuel Griswold Goodrich from Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom.An engraving illustrating the Olympic games from Peter Parley's tales about ancient and modern GreeceIn 1857 he published Recollections of a Lifetime, which contains a list both of the works of which he was the author or editor and of the spurious works published under his name. By his writings and publications he amassed a large fortune. He was active in Whig politics, and was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836, and of the state Senate in 1837, his competitor in the last election being Alexander Hill Everett, and in 1851-1853 he was consul at Paris, where he remained until 1855, taking advantage of his stay to have several of his works translated into French. At the end of his consulship, he was presented with a commemorative medal.He returned to the United States, and, in 1859, he published Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom. He died in New York and was buried in Southbury, Connecticut where he lived for a short time. His funeral was widely attended by a vast concourse of persons. Two hundred Sunday School children headed the procession to the cemetery.

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