c.1862 - National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc. Etc.

By Evert A. Duyckinck

Over 100 Beautiful Steel Engravings With Tissue Guards from Original full length paintings By Alonzo Chappel

circa 1862, First Edition
Johnson, Fry & Company, Publishers

Biographical and Historical Narratives of Presidents to Revolutionary Leaders to Authors to Artists.

In Two Volumes

Full leather Morocco gilt with raised bands, tall quarto, illustrated frontispiece engravings with tissue guards, decorative title pages, gilt to all edges, bindings tight, pages clean and bright with some light scattering of foxing in first few pages, 488pp, 502pp.

Size: 8 1/4” x 11 1/4”

Scarce

Extraordinarily beautiful!