The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. by Longacre, James B., James Herring - 1839

ARNO Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Volume 1

Henry Perkins. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Volume 1. (US history, biography, reference) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1835, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 35 Steel engraved portraits. Vol. II 1835. First edition. Rebound late 19th C binding Quarto raised leather. Marble paper sides. One volume (II) of four. Firm binding. Clean unmarked interior. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Arno Press and New York Times, 1970. Hardcover. VG (A few small tears at heads of spines, otherwise clean.). 4 vols. Green cloth, gilt letters on spines and front covers, with gilt decoration on front cover; 1582 total pp., 100+ BW engravings. The complete four-volume set, a reprint of the original published between 1834 and 1839. With a new introduction by Robert G. Stewart. Contains biographies and portraits of 144 "distinguished Americans" of the first decades of the United States, as rendered by 50 artists and 24 engravers. "In many cases, the portrait engravings from it have become the best known likenesses of the subjects, and are still being reproduced as likenesses, but now through photographs of the engravings." (p. xi) The fourth volume includes an index to the subjects, artists, and engravers.

Henry Perkins, Philadelphia; Monson Bancroft, NY, 1835. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New.

New York: Arno Press and New York Times, 1970. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with labels on spines, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pockets; some scuffs to some covers; pages are clean.). 4 vols. Green cloth, gilt letters on spines and front covers, with gilt decoration on front cover; 1582 total pp., 100+ BW engravings. The complete four-volume set, a reprint of the original published between 1834 and 1839. With a new introduction by Robert G. Stewart. Contains biographies and portraits of 144 "distinguished Americans" of the first decades of the United States, as rendered by 50 artists and 24 engravers. "In many cases, the portrait engravings from it have become the best known likenesses of the subjects, and are still being reproduced as likenesses, but now through photographs of the engravings." (p. xi) The fourth volume includes an index to the subjects, artists, and engravers.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.