The Works [together with] The Private Correspondence.
Edited by Fletcher Webster.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1858 Stock Code: 114126
Eleventh edition. Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator and Secretary of State, was one of the most important figures in US politics in the first half of the 19th century. An attractively bound set preserving speeches, legal arguments, diplomatic papers touching on and influencing all the important events of the first half of the 19th century.
Description
8 volumes, octavo (222 x 141 mm). Contemporary tan calf, black and green morocco labels, decoration to spines in compartments gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt and dotted roll in blind, marbled endpapers and edges.
Illustrations
Engraved frontispieces.
Condition
Bookplate to front pastedowns, some browning to leaves and occasional foxing, spines slightly rubbed with some minor loss to gilt, boards a little marked, an excellent set.
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