Author: HILL, THOMAS EDIE
Title: Hill's Album of Biography and Art Containing Portraits and Pen-Sketches of Many Persons Who Have Been and Are Prominent As Religionists, Military . . . Household Decoration and Landscape Gardening
Description: Chicago: Hill Standard Book Co, 1884. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 8 1/2 x 11 x1 3/4; 451 pages; Originally published In 1881, this volume is from 1884. Hard cover is red black lettering. All edges red. Covers have rubbing, sunning, bumping, fading, damp spots and 2 1/4" piece missing from bottom of spine, exposing the gathers. Some pencil notations on end papers. Bottom of rear end paper and inside back cover is red mark, from red dye of covers, bleeding. Weak gutters. Some pages have some light foxing. Lavishly illustrated with b/w pictures. This is Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Oversized, 6#.. Good+ .

Keywords: 19th Century America; Cultural History; Social History; Biography; Military Leaders; Political Leaders; Artists; Scientists; Explorers;