History of Georgia (Biographical) - 4 Volume Set by Clark Howell - 1926

The S. J. Clarke Publishing co, 1926. Hardback. Collectible: Very Good. 4 Volume Set (Complete). VERY GOOD. No dust jackets as issued. The covers on all volumes have some wear. Volume 3 has some more apparent aging of the cloth on the spine and back cover. The bindings are very solid; tight and square. There are no marks noted in the text nor on the endpapers. The gilt titles on the spines is bright and there edges are marbled. There are a large number of b7w illustrations throughout all volumes, and most remail covered with the original tissue guard. . . . . . . . It is the purpose of the author to tell the story of Georgia from the earliest period of historical records of the aboriginal life, in the territory confined within the present boundaries of this great commonwealth, down through the ages and the decades and the years to the present time. . . . . . . VOLUME ONE (In 9 Parts): PART I: deals with the prehistoric, aboriginal and precolonial periods, and will take the reader through the circumstances leading to the establishment of the Colony of Georgia by the English peer who was a member of the House of Commons, and a brilliant, dashing and deeply spiritual philanthropist ----- PART II: deals with the gradual but sound and sane development of the charter-colony under the administration of Governor Oglethorpe, the trials, tribulations, accomplishments of that formative period in which the high ideals of statehood were instilled ----- PART III: is the Royal-Colonial period, during which Georgia was governed by the King of England, the governor being appointed directly by the Crown. Captain John Reynolds became the first governor after the surrender of the charter originally granted to the trustees ----- PART IV: develops the history of the revolutionary period, in which Georgia, among the last to leave the crown, was among the first in patriotic devotion to a free and sovereign government. This period, as the reader may judge, was exciting, impelling, heart-throbbing, and especially as the theatre of the war was transferred to Georgia soil ----- PART V: the period of Georgia as a commonwealth, under the Declaration of Independence and the victory of the patriotic forces under the command of General Washington ----- PART VI: deals with the period after the development of party government and when the clouds of the Civil war began to gather ----- PART VII: deals with the Civil war period, following the secession, the organization of the state troops under General Henry R. Jackson, the leadership of General Gordon, and the glorious record of a state of Dixie patriots ----- PART VIII: which deals with the dark days of Reconstruction, the organization of the original Ku Klux Klan, the tyranny of an almost unbearable situation. In this period the reader will be told of the land frauds, and the bond frauds, and the other black pages of night, following which a dawn of brilliancy and life and light brought into being the New South ----- PART IX: The new South and covers the growth up to the 1920's ---------------- VOLUMES 2 THRU 4 Are biographical sketches, many with pictures of present day [1920's] significant Georgians.