Description
The Standard Library Edition of American Statesmen, as published in 1898, complete in 32 volumes.
Octavo, [thirty-two volumes]. Full green cloth, title in gilt on spine of each volume. Solid text blocks, occasional points of wear to cloth covers, dust remnants to top edge. Previous ownership bookplate at front of each volume. Features a frontispiece portrait of each installment’s subject, all protected by tissue guards. A near fine set.
Subjects include: Benjamin Franklin; Samuel Adams; Patrick Henry; George Washington [2 volumes]; John Adams; Alexander Hamilton; Gouverneur Morris; John Jay; John Marshall; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Albert Gallatin; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; John Randolph; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; Henry Clay [2 volumes]; Daniel Webster; John C. Calhoun; Thomas H. Benton; Lewis Cass; Abraham Lincoln [2 volumes]; William H. Seward; Salmon P. Chase; Charles Francis Adams; Charles Sumner; Thaddeus Stevens, and a General Index.
