The iron worker and King Solomon
By: by Joseph Harrison ; with a memoir and an appendix
Contributors: Schuessele, Christian; Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver; Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879; Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903; American Railway Master Mechanics' Association; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.); J.B. Lippincott & Co
Edition: Second edition, revised.
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Poetry; Blacksmiths; Iron and steel workers; American poetry; Steam-boilers, Water-tube; Steam-boiler explosions; United States. Patent Office; United States
Notes: "Printed for private circulation."

Although the title page is dated 1869, with the statement "Second edition, revised," this is evidently a later publication. The special title page for "An essay on the steam-boiler" is dated in the lower right corner, "April, 1870." This may have been a very limited ed. made up for Harrison to give to his friends.

The portrait frontispiece is signed: Eng'd by John Sartain Phila.

"I have written the verses ... entitled the 'Iron worker and King Solomon" ... [to illustrate] the photograph, taken from a picture ... called the "Iron worker," painted for me four or five years ago by Christian Schuessele. The story from which the picture is painted will be found ... [in] the appendix, in which will also be found another version of the story ... furnished to me by my friend, Mr. Charles G. Leland"--Page vii (1st group).

The second leaf of plates is a mounted photographic print of Schuessele's painting.
Table of contents: title: The iron worker and King Solomon. Memoir. The crucifixion / by Joseph Harrison, Jr.; title: [Appendix]. Remarks of Joseph Harrison, Jr., on the mechanic arts, at a public dinner given to Henry C. Carey, April 27th, 1859. "Iron," a poem / by Sarah J. Hale. The blacksmith and King Solomon, a rabbinical legend. The blacksmith, a poem / by Charles G. Leland; title: [Supplementary appendix]. Remarks on introducing Mr. Rothermel, at the unveiling of his picture of The battle of Gettysburg. Remarks at a public dinner, given to the Association of American Railway Master Mechanics. The rubbish in the Patent-Office at Washington. Verses on various subjects. Letter to the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, on the subject of an art gallery. An essay on the steam-boiler, read at the Franklin Institute, January 16th, 1867.