GROLIER 100 AMERICAN BOOKS

In 1947 The Grolier Club mounted in New York an exhibition of the most influential books printed in America before 1900. The book continues to be a useful guide and source of inspiration for collectors of American history and literature.

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1. [ELIOT, John, and others]. The Whole Booke of Psalms... [Cambridge], 1640.

2. [WILLIAMS, Roger]. The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience... [London], 1644.

3. [MATHER, Richard, and others]. A Platform of Church Discipline...Cambridge, 1649.

4. [WIGGLESWORTH, Michael]. The Day of Doom. London, 1673.

5. ROWLANDSON, Mrs. Mary. A True History of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson...London, 1682.

6. MATHER, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana...London, 1702.

7. WISE, John. A Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches. Boston, 1717.

8. NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. The New England Primer ... Boston, 1727.

9. [ZENGER, John Peter]. A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger...[New York, 1736].

10. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America. London, 1751 and Supplemental Experiments and Observations... London, 1753 and New Experiments and Observations... London, 1754.

11. EDWARDS, Jonathan. A Careful and Strict Enquiry into...Freedom of Will...Boston, 1754.

12. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack...for...1758...Philadelphia, [1757].

13. [DICKINSON, John]. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. Philadelphia, 1768.

14. PAINE, Thomas. Common Sense...Philadelphia, 1776.

15. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration...[of Independence]. Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, [1776].

16. WEBSTER, Noah.A Grammatical Institute, of the English Language...Designed for the Use of English Schools in America...Part I. Hartford, [1783].

17. NORTHWEST ORDINANCE. An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio. [New York, 1787].

20. BILL OF RIGHTS. The Bill of Rights]. [New York, 1789].

21. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Mémoires de la Vie Privée...Écrits par lui-me¹me...Paris, 1791. The Private Life of the late Benjamin Franklin... London, 1793. , Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin...London, 1793.

22. THOMAS, Robert Bailey. The Farmer's Almanac...for...1793...Boston, [1792].

23. ROWSON, Susanna Haswell. Charlotte, a Tale of Truth. Philadelphia, 1794.

24. [WASHINGTON, George]. The President's Address to the People of the United States, announcing his intention of retiring from public life...Philadelphia: Printed for J. Ormrod, 1796.

25. BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass., 1802.

26. MARSHALL, John. Marbury v. Madison [Opinion delivered February 24, 1803]. [Contained in] William Cranch, Reports of Cases...in the Supreme Court...Washington, 1804.

27. WEEMS, Mason Locke. The Life of Washington the Great. Augusta [Ga.], 1806.

28. [IRVING, Washington.] A History of New York...by Diedrich Knickerbocker. New York, 1809.

29. THOMAS, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. Worcester, 1810.

30. [LEWIS, Meriwether, and William Clark]. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark...to the Pacific Ocean. Philadelphia, 1814.

31. [IRVING, Washington.] The Sketch Book by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [New York], 1819-1820.

32. BRYANT, William Cullen. Poems. Cambridge, 1821.

33. MONROE, James. [The Monroe Doctrine]. [Washington, 1823].

34. COOPER, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. Philadelphia, 1826.

35. [GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold] (Peter Parley). The Tales of Peter Parley about America. Boston, 1827.

36. WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language...New York, 1828.

37. SMITH, Joseph, Junior. The Book of Mormon. Palmyra [New York], 1830.

38. BEAUMONT, William. Experiments and Observations. on the Gastric Juice...Plattsburg, 1833.

39. [CROCKETT, DAVY.] [The Crockett Almanacks for 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1839]. Nashville, Tennessee, [various dates].

40. [SIMMS, William Gilmore]. The Yemassee. New York, 1835.

41. GRAY, Asa. Elements of Botany. New York, 1836.

42. McGUFFEY, William Holmes. The Eclectic First Reader. Cincinnati, 1836.

43. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Boston, 1837.

44. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Twice-Told Tales. Boston, 1837.

45. AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America. New York and Philadelphia, [1840-1841]

46. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.Two Years before the Mast. New York, 1840.

47. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.Essays. Boston, 1841. Essays: Second Series. Boston, 1844.

48. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Ballads and Other Poems. Cambridge, 1842.

49. FRÉMONT, John Charles. Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains...Washington, 1843. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44...Washington, 1845.

50. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever. Boston, [1843].

51. PRESCOTT, William Hickling. History of the Conquest of Mexico. New York, 1843.

52. MOORE, Clement C. Poems. New York, 1844.

53. CUSHING, Luther Stearns. Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies. Boston, 1845.

54. [HERBERT, Henry William] (Frank Forester). The Warwick Woodlands. Philadelphia, 1845.

55. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales. New York, 1845.

56. POE, Edgar Allan. The Raven, and Other Poems. New York, 1845.

57. [LOWELL, James Russell.] Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers. Cambridge, 1848.

58. PARKMAN, Francis, Jr. The California and Oregon Trail. New York, 1849.

59. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston, 1850.

60. MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York, 1851.

61. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston, 1852.

62. ARTHUR, Timothy Shay. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Boston and Philadelphia, 1854.

63. THOREAU, Henry David. Walden. Boston, 1854.

64. [BARTLETT, John]. Familiar Quotations. Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855.

65. BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Fable. Boston, 1855.

66. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston, 1855.

67. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, 1855.

68. TANEY, Roger B., and others. Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford. Washington, 1857.

69. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston, 1858.

70. STEPHENS, Ann Sophia. Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter. New York, [1860].

71. LINCOLN, Abraham. [Emancipation Proclamation]. Washington, 1863.

72. LINCOLN, Abraham. The Gettysburg Solemnities...Published at the Washington Chronicle Office, [1863].

73. WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. Boston, 1866.

74. ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women. Boston, 1868 and 'Little Women, Part Second. Boston, 1869.

75. ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Ragged Dick. Boston, [1868].

76. HARTE, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp. Boston, 1870.

77. [WARD, A. Montgomery]. [First Mail Order Broadside]. Chicago, [1872]. [First Mail Order Pamphlet]. Chicago, [1874].

78. EDDY, Mary Baker. Science and Health. Boston, 1875.

79. [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] (Mark Twain). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, 1876.

80. GREEN, Anna Katharine. The Leavenworth Case. New York, 1878.

81. GEORGE, Henry. Progress and Poverty. San Francisco, 1879.

82. WALLACE, Lew. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. New York, 1880.

83. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. New York, 1881.

84. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Boston, 1881.

85. JAMES, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. London, 1881.

86. LINCOLN, Mrs. D.A. Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. Boston, 1884.

87. [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] (Mark Twain). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York, 1885.

88. HOWELLS, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston, 1885.

89. BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York, 1886.

90. BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward: 2000-1887. Boston, 1888.

91. DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Boston, 1890. Poems, Second Series. Boston, 1891.Poems, Third Series. Boston, 1896.

92. JAMES, William. Principles of Psychology. New York, 1890.

93. MAHAN, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783. Boston, 1890.

94. BIERCE, Ambrose. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco, 1891.

95. GARLAND, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads. Boston, 1891.

96. TURNER, Frederick Jackson. The Significance of the Frontier in American History. Madison [Wis.], 1894.

97. HOLT, Luther Emmett. The Care and Feeding of Children. New York, 1894.

98. CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New York, 1895.

99. MARKHAM, Edwin.The Man with the Hoe. San Francisco, 1899.

100. VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York, 1899.