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Detroit: Silas Farmer & Co., 1889. Second Edition, revised. Hardcover . Used. Two volumes. Three-quarter-bound morocco over pebbled cloth, with stamped gilt and gilt page edges. Glossy marbled endpapers, profusely illustrated; the numerous portrait plates with facsimile signatures are especially striking, and they accompany the wonderful biographical sketches which were added to this expanded 2nd edition. Leather is heavily scuffed and rubbed, with board exposure at corners, and 1x2' piece missing from spine head of Vol 1, exposing paper backstrip. Spine leather is dry. Hinges starting a little, else binding quite secure. Pre-owner's name and date (1889) on ffeps, in lovely quill or fountain pen handwriting. A very small amount of foxing/tanning, mostly in early pages. 1028 + 1236 pps. Size: Thick 4to 9' - 13' tall