Description
The Photographic History of the Civil War by Francis Trevelyan Miller, complete in ten volumes, from The Easton Press.
Quarto, [ten volumes]. Publisher’s full blue morocco, title in gilt on spine, illustration stamped on cover. All edges gilt, some with light wear. With silk endpapers and a silk bookmark in each volume. Bookplate affixed opposite title page in Volume I, laid into subsequent volumes. Volume V with a lightly bumped lower edge of rear board. All volumes appear unread, an attractive, fine example. (Eicher, 711)
An impressive collection of Civil War photography, with thousands of images from the war. The first edition of The Photographic History of the Civil War was published in 1911 by Review of Reviews in New York.
Considered by Eicher to be “the grandfather of pictorial histories, this mammoth work is a necessary part of any Civil War library.”
The Individual Volumes Include: The Opening Battles (Vol. I), Two Years of Grim War (Vol. II), The Decisive Battles (Vol. III), The Cavalry (Vol. IV), Forts and Artillery (Vol. V), The Navies (Vol. VI), Prisons and Hospitals (Vol. VII), Soldier Life and Secret Service (Vol. VIII), Poetry and Eloquence of Blue and Gray (Vol. IX) and Armies and Leaders (Vol. X). Important contributors to this work include the photographer Matthew Brady, Frederick Dent Grant, George H. Putnam, William C. Church, Theodore Rodenbaugh, and President William H. Taft. The managing editor of this work was Robert S. Lanier.
