Publication:MBLMLNDCLM1902
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Title page credits Bangs and Macauley equally, does not mention illustrations. Illustrations all clearly signed "C. R. Macauley". Contemporary reviews (brief, quoted in full below) take for granted that Bangs is the sole writer. They were both well-known, as humor writer and cartoonist. Macauley both wrote and illustrated Fantasma Land (1904) T912311, apparently in the same genre.
HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of the first edition, two copies (<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006154563">catalog record</a>). (That from Harvard University, digitized by Google, is also available piecemeal at Google Books.)
Title page (quote in part): New York // R. H. Russell // 1902
Verso (in full): Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell // First Impression, December, 1902 // The Trow Press, New York
Price entered as $1.60, per listing in Cumulative Book Index
Brief reviews (no price stated) (no other items found in search for 'emblemland' 2016-08-31)
- "J. K. Bang's Fun", The New York Times, 1903-02-21
- "Emblemland." by John Kendrick Bangs, with many pictures by Charles Raymond Macauley, (New York: R. H. Russell,) is another of the many imitations of "Alice's Adventures." Rollo, accompanied by an amiable dolphin, sails for the land where all the emblemns and symbols dwell--Uncle Sam and John Bull, the Owl and the Stork, Mr. Punch and Puck, Father Time, cupid, and all the others. His adventures are of a diverting sort, and make easy reading for an idle hour, while some of Mr. Macauley's pictures are very droll. Rollo has the merit of being a very lifelike small boy, and he remains so through all his amazing adventures.
- The Atlanta Constitution, 1903-03-22 pD9 (no title, layout as extension of a long article by Frederic J. Haskin)
- When we pick up a new book by John Kendrick Bangs we expect to find and original and whimsical idea worked out with the skill of a practiced humorist. And in the case of "Emblemland" we are not disappointed. Mr. Bangs has conceived of a land peopled with the characters familiar to all Americans as emblems--the republican elephant, the democratic tiger, Father Time, the American eagle, the British lion, Life, Judge, etc. Into this country he takes an engaging youth by the name of Rollo, and the book consists of what Rollo sees and hears. C. R. Macauley, the well-known cartoonist, keeps abreat of the text with more than forty amusing illustrations.
- San Francisco Chronicle, 1903-03-29 p22 (column "Ex Libris" begins with a long section, two items, finally signed George Hamlin Fitch; otherwise anonymous)
- "Emblemland." In "Emblemland" John Kendrick Bangs gets some good fun by means of our old childhood friend Rollo. This precious boy falls asleep and has as many adventures as Alice had in Wonderland. He runs across all kinds of people from Cupid and the Stork to Pegasus and the Sphinx. Charles Raymond Macauley helps out by some very amusing sketches. Mr. Bangs has indulged in a number of short poems that are extremely amusing. The book may be recommended as interesting.