LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS by Quincy, Edmund:
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Boston. 1868.. xii,560pp. plus two plates (including frontispiece portrait). Original blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt. Hinges a touch weak, a few modest marks in colored pencil. Very good. Fourth edition, after the first of the year before. One of the basic sources on this important Massachusetts politician. "An important source, particularly for [the] congressional years" - ANB. ANB 18, pp.37-39.
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