Description

Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s worn non price-clipped dust-jacket. 362 pages. Appendices, Glossary and index. Illustrated with several photographs, engravings and paintings, all in black and white. Second edition. A biography of the primary benefactor of Yale College, whose name the institution took at the suggestion of none other than Cotton Mather. Ironically, though American born, Elihu Yale never set foot in the colonies again after his childhood. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket toned and showing edge-wear along top edge. Near fine in a near good dust-jacket.