Author: LOSSING, Benson J.
Title: Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the CIVIL War 1861-65 and the Causes That Led Up to the Great Conflict
Description: New York, The Fairfax Press, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 512pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Quite attractive and tight facsimile reprint of the popular 1912 pictorial overview, critiqued by a lukewarm E.B. Long: "With a large number of Brady photographs included, Lossing's text forms an interesting volume for general perusal; now of little historical value." NEVINS II, 20. .

Keywords: Civil War Photography


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