NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS, From Original Paintings by Alonzo Chappel. In two volumes.

Johnson, Fry & Company: NY, 1862. Item #97-4053

119 full page engravings plus title pages, 11xp", gilt ruled half leather with raised bands on spine, marbled boards and endpaper, 488, 470. Covers well worn, rubbed, scraped, paper peeling and chipping, creased, corners bumped and worn, edgeworn, gilt decorated and lettering on spine faded, inner hinges cracked and covers loose, text blocks cracked, loose signatures, offsetting, soiling, smudging, tissue guards torn and one missing lower corner area, lacking just over half of the tissue guards, free front endpaper and next few pages almost detached in volume 1 and detached in volume 2, spotting, staining, browned pages, creased corners, pencil scribble in volume 1, chipping, small tears, volume 2 lacking pieces out of the left margins of the first few pages (those pieces still attached to binding). FIRST ED.

Price: $150.00

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