WILSON, Woodrow.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington

A History of the American People. The Documentary Edition, signed limited issue, number 43 of 400 sets signed by the 28th President.Wilson's popular, patriotic account of the nation's history met with much success from its first publication in five volumes in 1902. In his introduction to this edition, Ripley Hitchcock stated that the work had "established itself as the most brilliant general version of the history of our country".The Documentary Edition was also known as the "Autographed Edition", as the spines here are lettered. Published after Wilson's re-election and the United States' entry into the First World War, the edition is extensively illustrated with reproductions of original sources.The limitation notice records the subscriber as George S. Hamilton.

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