The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans: With Biographical Sketches in Four Volumes
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1856.
Later printing. Leather bound. Tall quartos. 4 volumes. Unpaginated. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits. Brown leather bindings with embossed covers, raised bands on spines, and gilt titles on spines. All edges gilt. Leather is rubbed along the joints, corners, and board edges. Leather is torn bottom of volume 3. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to all volumes. Volume 1 has two frontispieces including a portrait of George Washington as a young officer. Volume 4 front board reattached and front hinge repaired. All volumes have the previous owner printed name labels of C. P. Crawford on the front paste downs. C. P. Crawford was a Confederate Captain during the Civil War. He practiced law in Milledgeville Georgia after the war. Fair. Item #35940
Price: $250.00