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 half morocco binding. Customers could order their sets in cloth, sheep leather, half morocco, full morocco, and tree calf, ranging in price from $7 to $25. The half morocco binding cost $11 at the time of publication, amounting to about $370 today when adjusting for inflation, and is less common than the cheaper cloth and sheep bindings. (Publisher's Prospectus)
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, bound in morocco leather and cloth stamped in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, frontispieces with tissue guards, several other plates with tissue guards within. Vol. 1: 584 pp.; Vol. 2: 654 pp. (+index, errata). Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-outs present. Both volumes with firm hinges and secure binding; sunning to the spines; rubbing to the cloth and leather; and some soiling and staining. Gilt fairly bright but with some rubbing. No prior owner’s markings. Faint ghosting of the frontispieces to the title pages, as observed in nearly every copy. Pages generally clean and bright, with very occasional minor imperfections. Small dent to the spine strip of Vol. 1, affecting the “G” in “Grant.” Short tear to the lower inside edge of the tissue guard in Vol. 2. Fold-out Terms of Lee’s surrender in Vol. 2 has a small loss to the rear fold and two closed tears.
“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: 924 - 532 - 562
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 half morocco binding. Customers could order their sets in cloth, sheep leather, half morocco, full morocco, and tree calf, ranging in price from $7 to $25. The half morocco binding cost $11 at the time of publication, amounting to about $370 today when adjusting for inflation, and is less common than the cheaper cloth and sheep bindings. (Publisher's Prospectus)
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, bound in morocco leather and cloth stamped in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, frontispieces with tissue guards, several other plates with tissue guards within. Vol. 1: 584 pp.; Vol. 2: 654 pp. (+index, errata). Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-outs present. Both volumes with firm hinges and secure binding; sunning to the spines; rubbing to the cloth and leather; and some soiling and staining. Gilt fairly bright but with some rubbing. No prior owner’s markings. Faint ghosting of the frontispieces to the title pages, as observed in nearly every copy. Pages generally clean and bright, with very occasional minor imperfections. Small dent to the spine strip of Vol. 1, affecting the “G” in “Grant.” Short tear to the lower inside edge of the tissue guard in Vol. 2. Fold-out Terms of Lee’s surrender in Vol. 2 has a small loss to the rear fold and two closed tears.
“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: 924 - 532 - 562
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