Fifty Years among Authors, Books and Publishers.

vii, 8-739, [1] pp. 8vo. A memoir by the publisher of various important 19th century authors including Henry Ward Beecher and William H. Seward. Derby served under Seward at the Department of State during the Lincoln administration, was a Republic Party activist, and helped plan the 1867 International Exposition in Paris. In this volume he discusses such authors as: Horace Greeley; William Cullen Bryant; James Parton; Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc., with mentions of important publishers and political figures as well.