Publisher and Year: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885 (Vol. 1) and 1886 (Vol. 2)
Edition: First edition, first printing, in the publisher's cloth binding. Customers could order these sets in cloth, sheep leather, half morocco, full morocco, and tree calf, ranging in price from $7 to $25. Although cloth was the cheapest of these bindings at $7, it was still expensive to consumers, amounting to about $234 today when adjusting for inflation. (Publisher's Prospectus)
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, plain edges, floral endpapers, frontispieces with tissue guards. Additional illustrations and maps throughout the text. Vol. 1: 584 pp; Vol. 2: 654 pp (+ index, errata). Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-out materials present. Gilt bright. Mild handling wear to the cloth and extremities. A little soiling to the edges of the text block and a thin stain to the bottom edge of Vol. 2. Firm hinges and binding. Slight offsetting of the plates to the facing leaves, as usual. Fold-out materials intact. In the second volume, there is a prior owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown (“Private Library of Edgar Haven”), a small blind-debossed stamp to the front free endpaper (“H.G. Allen Pub Co / Grand Rapids”), and a discreet two-inch tissue reinforcement along the gutter at the verso of the frontispiece and the verso of the title leaf.
“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this.”
Inventory ID: 311 - 232 - 675
Publisher and Year: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885 (Vol. 1) and 1886 (Vol. 2)
Edition: First edition, first printing, in the publisher's cloth binding. Customers could order these sets in cloth, sheep leather, half morocco, full morocco, and tree calf, ranging in price from $7 to $25. Although cloth was the cheapest of these bindings at $7, it was still expensive to consumers, amounting to about $234 today when adjusting for inflation. (Publisher's Prospectus)
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, plain edges, floral endpapers, frontispieces with tissue guards. Additional illustrations and maps throughout the text. Vol. 1: 584 pp; Vol. 2: 654 pp (+ index, errata). Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-out materials present. Gilt bright. Mild handling wear to the cloth and extremities. A little soiling to the edges of the text block and a thin stain to the bottom edge of Vol. 2. Firm hinges and binding. Slight offsetting of the plates to the facing leaves, as usual. Fold-out materials intact. In the second volume, there is a prior owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown (“Private Library of Edgar Haven”), a small blind-debossed stamp to the front free endpaper (“H.G. Allen Pub Co / Grand Rapids”), and a discreet two-inch tissue reinforcement along the gutter at the verso of the frontispiece and the verso of the title leaf.
“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this.”
Inventory ID: 311 - 232 - 675
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