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Homes of American statesmen: with anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches / by various writers. Illustrated with engravings on wood, from drawings by Döpler and daguerreotypes: and fac-similes of autograph letters.
LIBRA Rare E176 .H78 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statesmen--United States.
- Statesmen.
- Historic buildings.
- United States.
- United States--Biography.
- United States--Historic houses, etc.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, viii, 484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- American statesmen
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred W. Upham, 1860.
- Contents:
- Washington by Mrs. C. M. Kirkland.
- Franklin by C. F. Briggs.
- Jefferson by Parke Godwin.
- Hancock by Richard Hildreth.
- John Adams by Clarence Cook.
- Patrick Henry by Edward W. Johnston.
- Madison by Edward W. Johnston.
- Jay by William S. Thayer.
- Hamilton by James C. Carter.
- Marshall by R. W. Griswold, D.D.
- Ames by James B. Thayer.
- John Quincy Adams by David Lee Child.
- Jackson by Parke Godwin.
- Rufus King by Charles King, L.L.D.
- Clay by Horace Greeley.
- Calhoun by Parke Godwin.
- Clinton by T. Romeyn Beck, M.D.
- Story by Francis Howland.
- Wheaton.
- Webster by Henry C. Deming.
- Notes:
- Added engraved title-page, with imprint: Hartford, O.D. Case & co.
- "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by O. D. Case & Co. ..."
- "We need hardly commend to the American public this attempt to describe and familiarize the habitual dwelling places of some of the more eminent of our Statesmen. In bringing together such particulars as we could gather, of the homes of the men to whom we owe our own, we feel that we have performed an acceptable and not unncessary service ... Most of the other illustrations have been engraved from original drawings, or daguerreotypes taken for the purpose."--Publisher's Notice.
- Brown leather binding with embossed design and rules on front and back cover. Lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. All edges gilt stained.
- Frost Collection copy spine partly disbound.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Homes of American statesmen.
- OCLC:
- 7742547
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