Description
The scarce first edition of Personal Reminiscences of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Rev. William J. Jones, published in 1874.
Octavo, xvi, 509pp, [1], [2pp ads]. Publisher’s green cloth, title and illustrations in gilt, embossed illustrations in black print. A touch of wear to ends of spine, bright gilt, internally fine. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 18 full page engravings. (Nevins II, 68) (Dornbusch IV, 8967) (Eicher 263)
An exceptionally rare first edition of this early biography of R.E. Lee.
This work by Rev. William J. Jones is a partisan attempt to document the “absolute perfection” of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The author, Rev. Jones, was the chaplain of the Army of Northern Virginia and secretary of the Southern Historical Society. He personally observed Lee after the surrender at Appomattox. Afterwards, Rev. Jones wrote this book and another, “Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee, Solider and Man” in 1906.
