[CIVIL WAR] CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding, with dustjacket; xvii pages, 1 List Illustrations, [3] 4-291 pages, including the Index; there is a trace of foxing to the leading edge of the textblock, and a previous owner name on the front endpaper.~~A most attractive copy with the uncommon, albeit price-clipped, dustjacket~~Harwell in In Tall Cotton states that this is “[one] of the earliest psychographs and about volume of its type to survive the more demanding techniques of later historican” noting that the portraits it gives “are still good reading”. (ITC 14; Nevins II, 40). Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.