1853 + 1885
The Works of DANIEL WEBSTER (in 6 volumes)
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The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of DANIEL WEBSTER (in 1 volume)
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1885. Complete in 6 volumes. Volumes bound in leather over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, gilt stamped fine bindings, marbled inner boards, marbled page edges, and with fine engravings. Volumes measure 9 x 63/8 inches.
Volume 1: clx, 457 pages + 2 full page engravings
Volume 2: vii, 622 pages + 1 full page engraving
Volume 3: vii, 551 pages + 1 full page engraving
Volume 4: viii, 558 pages + 1 full page engraving
Volume 5: viii, 545 pages
Volume 6: x, 633 pages
In very good condition with wear, rubbing and some chipping to leather exteriors. Otherwise the books are tight and square with clean pages.
Together with The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of DANIEL WEBSTER. Published in Rochester: Wilbur M. Hayward & Co, 1853. Bound in blindstamped and giltstamped full black cloth featuring a fine engraving of Webster. Volume measures 91/8 x 6 inches.
2 blank leaves, 1 leaf frontis engraving, 1-72 + 3-112 pages, 2 blank end leaves. There is no numbered pages 1,2 in the second part of the book, yet it looks complete. This is also the case in other copies found online.
Very good condition with wear to exteriors, bumped corners, tear to cloth of lower spine. Interior pages show foxing throughout, but otherwise clean and tight.
$475.00
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