Description
The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War: Its Causes, Origin, Conduct and Results by John Laird Wilson, published in Philadelphia in 1881.
Quarto, iv, 976pp. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, illustrations in gilt on front cover. This work is complete, with over 60 full-page steel engraved battle scenes and portraits, all with tissue covers. Front hinge reinforced, title page and the first illustration tipped in. Solid text block. Light rubbing to cloth boards. Housed in custom green cloth clamshell.
(Nevins II, 33) (Dornbusch III, 263)
This work was first published as the third volume of “Battles of America by Sea and Land” by John Wilson, published in 1878. The first separate edition was also published in 1881 by Staley & Hawes of Philadelphia. This work was additionally issued in half and full morocco bindings.
