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, three-quarter 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. Vol 1: 584 pp; Vol 2: 654 pp (+index, errata). Additional in-text plates. Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-out materials present. A superb set, with light wear to the boards and with the gilt medallions remaining radiant. Firm hinges and binding. Clean and bright pages, with no ownership markings or foxing. Seldom found in this condition, and certainly the best copy we have had in stock in more than a decade.
“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: 689 - 158 - 489
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, three-quarter 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. Vol 1: 584 pp; Vol 2: 654 pp (+index, errata). Additional in-text plates. Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-out materials present. A superb set, with light wear to the boards and with the gilt medallions remaining radiant. Firm hinges and binding. Clean and bright pages, with no ownership markings or foxing. Seldom found in this condition, and certainly the best copy we have had in stock in more than a decade.
“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: 689 - 158 - 489
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