Author: Bates, Jerome Paine
Title: The Imperial Highway, or, the Road to Fortune and Happiness: With Biographies of Self-Made Men, Their Business Traits, Qualities and Habits. .
Description: Chicago, G.W. Borland, 1883. Hardcover. Green boards with black and gilt lettering and design; illustrated endpapers; marbled text block edges; xxi, 687 pp.; richly illustrated. From title page: "Among the hundreds of distinguished minds whose thoughts enrich these pages, are Washington, Franklin, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Smiles, Madame Montague, Scott, Chesterfield, Holland, Irving, Mrs. Hemans, Carlyle, Goethe, Schiller, Madame de Stael, Wellington, Wordsworth, Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Beaconsfield, Mrs. Stowe, Emerson, Dickens, Lincoln, Garfield, and many others. Good (Boards are moderately worn and scuffed; inner hinges are cracked; textblock is cracked and edgeworn; textblock edges are foxed.

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