Description

Hardcover, full genuine burgundy leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and enclosed on covers by double rules. All edges gilt. 510 pages. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, “privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics.” Illustrated in black and white with reproductions of historical engravings, paintings, etc. and maps. Contains bibliographical references, genealogical data, bibliography. and an index. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new.