Description
The first edition of The Photographic History of the Civil War by Francis Trevelyan Miller. Known as the “Semi-Centennial Memorial” edition.
Quarto, [ten volumes]. Publisher’s blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, stamped illustration on cover. No additional printings noted. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers in all volumes. A few signatures are showing wear, delicate hinges, binding generally sound. Light soiling to spines, a few volumes with thumb marks to blue cloth. (Eicher, 711) (DAB I, 585)
An impressive collection of Civil War photography, with thousands of images from the war.
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.
