The Voice of the Old Frontier

by R. W. G. Vail

Overview

This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512820119
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1949
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages:	510
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

R. W. G Vail was Director of The New-York Historical Society, Editor of Sabin's Dictionary, and President of the Bibliographical Society of America. In 1945-46 he held the Fellowship in Bibliography founded in 1930 by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach at the University of Pennsylvania.