October 1887 Art & Letters Magazine New Orleans Featuring Lead Article on Magic & Divination

What an incredible piece of New Orleans Art History! This item is in very good condition for it's age. The binding is still in tact but fragile. Everything is there. No rips, tears, or missing pages. Beautiful art and articles.

Though short-lived, the bimonthly journal played a significant role in the development of the late-nineteenth-century New Orleans arts community, and its establishment suggests the increasing professionalization of the local scene. Initially affiliated with the Artists' Association of New Orleans, the journal featured fiction, poetry, travel articles, book reviews, and essays, as well as art. The first issue appeared in February 1887 and the last in December of that year. 

ART AND LETTERS: AN ILLUSTRATED BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE - VOL. 1, No. 5, October, 1887 - Yearly Subscription, $3.00 - Single Number 50 Cts.  Mary Ashley Townsend, Editor. New Orleans: ART AND LETTERS ASSOCIATION, 138 GRAVIER STREET - E. A. Brandao & Co., Printers, 34 Magazine street, 1887. First Edition. NF. Rare 4to. 11 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. Pagination:  [155]-188 + [2] pages of local ads, including W. E. SEEBOLD, Artists' and Painters' Supplies, 166 CANAL STREET, and Gideon Townsend Stanton's stock brokerage. Two tissue-guarded plates: frontispiece (original etching), AMONG THE PALMETTOES by Bror Anders Wikstrom, and "KNUCKLE DOWN," Crayon by A. Molinary. Original pictorial wrappers, cover design executed by Wickstrom, local ads at both sides of lower cover. Expected agewear, spine perished at foot, else an excellent example, mostly uncut.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "Literary studies. Verse. Papers on historical and famous things and places about New Orleans. Travel accounts. Art talks and suggestions. Book review section. Fiction. Miscellanies. An excellent art and literary magazine." -A Bibliography of New Orleans Magazines, by Max L. Griffin. Contents include: MAGIC AND DIVINATION (Illustrations from old engravings) by MICHAEL KALLOPOTHEKES - MATER MIA, Poem by Amélie Rives - IN THE LAND OF HAWAII THE FISHER (Illustrations drawn from photographs), by Dr. J. H. Bemiss - THE OLD HOUSE ON ST. MARY STREET, By Nora Clifton Franklin - THE MODERN BACCHANTE, Poem by Rosalie M. Jonas - A PRE-VISION, by Erwin Craighead - TO ONE BEAUTIFUL, Sonnet by Mary Ashley Townsend - ART TALKS by Frank Waller.