Singerman ID#supp3044

The Welcome Friend; comprising a Choice Selection of Entertaining and Instructive Sketches. Now First Collected.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp3044

The Welcome Friend; comprising a Choice Selection of Entertaining and Instructive Sketches. Now First Collected. Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1858. 309 p.

Notes

"Story of the Baked Head": pp. [7]-29 (a bizarre tale centered on the severed heads of a Turk and a Jew); "The Fall of the Janissaries": pp. [199]-216 (setting is Constantinople and includes a Jewish porter). A perfect copy has a frontispiece.