Every Saturday / Volume III, No.63, March 16, 1867 / original Wraps. Black Sheep (Edmund Yates); Yankee Humor (Gerald Massey)

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 10 1/2" x 7. Engravings. Boston:Ticknor & Fields, 1867. The March 16, 1867 issue (Vol. III, No. 63) of Every Saturday. 10 1/2" x 7", newsprint wraps, 32 pp. + 8 pp ads. Very Good; edge wear only notable at bottom (see scans), standard very modest amount of age toning. Very old prior owner's signature of F.G. Sanborn at top of front cover. 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", an interesting take on the American sense of humor as he saw it by English poet Gerald Massey in "Yankee Humor", 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