first edition Hardcover
1974 · Urbana
by Madden, Betty I.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white and navy cloth. Very good. 297 pages. Nearly 600 drawings and photographs, thirty-six in full-color. Index of Names. A history from prehistoric times to 1860 covering every part of the state. Various crafts are depicted together with notes on itinerant artists as Sheldon Peck and Patrick Henry Davenport. KARPEL I1973. "Olaf Krans's career illustrates the latter days of the Swedish colony at Bishop Hill, Ill..." Signed by Betty I. Madden. (Inventory #: 76)