-Nast and Vedder
The artist Thomas Nast—famous for his activist political cartoons about the corrupt politician William “Boss” Tweed—spent time with the bohemians in the early days of his career. Nast illustrated the works of fellow bohemian Henry Wheeler Shaw, a popular humorist who wrote and lectured under the pseudonym of “Josh Billings.” Elihu Vedder was a struggling bohemian artist who finally found fame in the 1870s with his illustrations for a deluxe edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Thomas Nast (1840 - 1902), illustrator
Everybody’s Friend, or Josh Billings’ Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
Hartford, CT: American Pub Co, 1874
Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/921690
A version of this text has been digitized and is available through Hathitrust.
Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 1883), translator
Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923), illustrator
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám the astronomer-poet of Persia, rendered into English verse
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1894
Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/870145
A version of this text has been digitized and is available through Hathitrust.
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