Author: QUINCY, Edmund
Title: Life of Josiah Quincy
Description: 1867. QUINCY, Edmund. LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. Two portraits. xii,560 pp. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt title at spine, triple-rule border and publisher's monogram blocked in blind to sides, brown coated endpapers. A good plus copy: Light scuffing to binding, and hinges cracked, but clean and solid overall. Light foxing to frontisp. with shallow edge chipping to fore-edge, as well as to fore-edge of title leaf and first text leaf. Text leaves are lightly age-browned at edges, and a few leaves have short edge-tears. Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) was the Federalist minority leader in the U.S. House of Reprsentatives (1805-13), mayor of Boston, MA (1823-27); while president of Harvard University (1829-45) , he established the law school and observatory. (Sabin 67186). .

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