The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans: With Biographical Sketches in Four Volumes
by [D. Rice & A. N. Hart, Publishers]
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- Condition
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1856. Later printing. Leather bound. Fair. Tall quartos. 4 volumes. Unpaginated. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits. Brown leather bindings with embossed covers, raised bands on spines, and gilt titles on spines. All edges gilt. Leather is rubbed along the joints, corners, and board edges. Leather is torn bottom of volume 3. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to all volumes. Volume 1 has two frontispieces including a portrait of George Washington as a young officer. Volume 4 front board reattached and front hinge repaired. All volumes have the previous owner printed name labels of C. P. Crawford on the front paste downs. C. P. Crawford was a Confederate Captain during the Civil War. He practiced law in Milledgeville Georgia after the war.
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- Americana Books ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29462
- Title
- The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans: With Biographical Sketches in Four Volumes
- Author
- [D. Rice & A. N. Hart, Publishers]
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- D. Rice & A. N. Hart
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1856
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...