BOLTON, Sarah K. - Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1885. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown cloth over bevelled boards with gilt and black lettering and decorations. viii, 367pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; unusual 1887 Chihuahua, Mexico nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. An exceptionally tight, nice and internally near fine first edition of this highly eclectic rags-to-riches anthology, heavily American in focus. Profiled are George Peabody, Bayard Taylor, James B. Eads, James Watt, Josiah Mason, Bernard Palissy, Bertel Thorwaldsen, Wolfgang Mozart, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Michael Faraday, Henry Bessemer, Titus Salt, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Jean Paul Richter, Leon Gambetta, David G. Farragut, Ezra Cornell, Philip H. Sheridan, Thomas Cole, Ole Bull, Meissonier, George W. Childs, Dwight L. Moody and Abraham Lincoln. .

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