Appendix E | The Writings of Mark Twain (beta)

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Prospectus Illustrations and
Publisher’s Announcement

On 16 October 1889, Fred Hall wrote Clemens, “Since you approve of it, we will take sixteen of Beard’s best pictures and make a solid signature of pictures; under each one, in fine type, putting a short description of whatever the picture is intended to represent, as this will be a help to agents in selling the book.” The gathering of pictures, together with the publisher’s announcement and advertisement, are reproduced here in facsimile from a copy of the prospectus in the Mark Twain Papers.

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