Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches

by William Henry Brown

$3,600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Publisher's half brown morocco, cloth boards with gilt device First edition of this impressive work, notable for its effective and evocative lithographed portraits of renowned Americans of the antebellum period, each depicted in full-length silhouette profile: Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare Harry Peters . All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from

• Binding: Leather

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