First edition, in the publisher’s half morocco binding.
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: Two octavo volumes, publisher’s 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 foldouts present. Gilt uncommonly bright. Rubbing and handling wear to the leather and cloth, most prominently on the first volume. Tips exposed. Pages generally bright and clean, with very occasional minor imperfections. Gilt largely bright. Vol. 1: Hinges and binding firm; gilt medallions rubbed; staining from the half-title page until the title page; prior owner’s inscriptions in ink to the front blank (otherwise clear). Vol. 2: Hinges and binding secure, but with splitting to the endpapers along most of the length of the front gutter (the hinge remains structurally firm); tears to the edges of the foldout at p. 496 (The Terms of Lee’s Surrender); small corner crease to the upper-right margin of the foldout map at the rear of the volume, not affecting the printed image.
“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: 767 - 913 - 511
First edition, in the publisher’s half morocco binding.
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: Two octavo volumes, publisher’s 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 foldouts present. Gilt uncommonly bright. Rubbing and handling wear to the leather and cloth, most prominently on the first volume. Tips exposed. Pages generally bright and clean, with very occasional minor imperfections. Gilt largely bright. Vol. 1: Hinges and binding firm; gilt medallions rubbed; staining from the half-title page until the title page; prior owner’s inscriptions in ink to the front blank (otherwise clear). Vol. 2: Hinges and binding secure, but with splitting to the endpapers along most of the length of the front gutter (the hinge remains structurally firm); tears to the edges of the foldout at p. 496 (The Terms of Lee’s Surrender); small corner crease to the upper-right margin of the foldout map at the rear of the volume, not affecting the printed image.
“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: 767 - 913 - 511
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