first edition Hard Cover
1867 · New York
by Edward B. Pollard
New York: E. B. Treat & Co, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; brown embossed cloth with decorations and titling in gilt; 851 pages, with portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title page ("The Conflagration of Richmond"), and engraved portraits throughout; overall a lovely First Edition copy with a bit of sunning to the spine and the top inch of the boards.~~The Nevins bibliography has some pithy criticism of the book, asserting that it demonstrates that Mr. Pollard, "the outspoken Richmond newspaper editor at times wrote too much and said too little."~~ (Howes P, 452; Nevins II, 83; Dornbusch III, 39). Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 297766)