Every Saturday / Volume III, No. 59, February 16, 1867 / original Wraps. Black Sheep (Edmund Yates); An Evening With My Uncle (James Greenwood)

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 10 1/2" x 7. Engravings. Boston:Ticknor & Fields, 1867. The February 16, 1867 issue (Vol. III, No. 59) of Every Saturday. 10 1/2" x 7", newsprint wraps, 32 pp. + 8 pp ads. Just Good; front and back covers loose; very old india ink signature at top front cover; standard age toning, folding of cover and several pages at lower right (see scan). Nonetheless, sturdy and supple. An extraordinarily scarce original wraps copy of Every Saturday, a literary journal which is found, when it is found, almost always as six-monthly hardbound aggregations. Every Saturday was the weekly offering of Fields & Osgood after Ticknor & Fields; each of which offered, in the publisher's words, "choice reading selected from current foreign literature" - i.e., usually reprints from similar overseas journals, generally English ones, but often as well from advance sheets, and even the reprints were often pre-publication of the novel from which they were taken. This issue includes the typical variety of topics; please see cover-listed contents on scan. Most Every Saturday entries were reprinted from foreign journals, and occasionally became the first American appearance of works of some famous (or to-become-famous) authors, such as Jules Verne and Charles Dickens. Herein are two pre-publication chapters of Edmund Yates' "Black Sheep", a short tale by James Greenwood, "An Evening with My Uncle", as well as a number of other literary diversions (see scanned image of the contents), and eight pages of quaint ads, four at the beginning and four at the end. A small piece of publishing history. L-ES1