The Continent 1884 Volume V. No. 1 Through Volume V. No. 25 Hardcover - 1884

1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. First edition. Our Continent Publishing 1884. 3/4 heavily rubbed leather over marbled boards. Binding firm. Contains a run of 25 illustrated issues of The Continent from 1884, its final year of publication. 832 pages. Hundreds of articles, poems and illustrations including the first publication of Dorcas The Daughter of Faustina by Nathan ben Nathan an Essenean ( Nathan Kouns ), first publication of A Legend of Polecat Hollow by Tobe Hodge ( Charles McIlvaine ) , Donn Platt, Tenants of an Old Farm by Henry C. McCook, Once There Was A Man by R. H. Newell ( Orpheus C. Kerr ), William Willard Howard, Helen Campbell, The Canadian Capital by James Macdonald Oxley, J. L. Harbour, Hosea Gordon Blake, Julia F. Magruder, Ernest Kanufft, Henry Lewis, Music Among the Aztecs by H. T. Cresson, Alfred Trumble, Mountain Parks of Colorado by Edwards Roberts, Krao The Missing Link, Henry Blackburn, John Preston True, Henry James On American Traits by James Lane Allen, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry F. King, Walter Savage Landor by Joel Benton, Richard Henry Dana by John Vance Cheney, Margaret Vandegrift, Queen Louise of Prussia by Helen Soule Carhart, Reginald T. Sperry, and a "guess the author" contest that included works by Helen Jackson, Louise Chandler Moulton, Mary B. Parker, Sara Orne Jewett, Edward Everett Hale, John Habberton, Philip bourke Marston, E. P. Roe, anna K. Greene, Rossiter W. Raymond, Edgar Fawcett Rose Terry Cooke, Charles Barnard and Harriet Beecher Stowe..