A Description of Texas, Its Advantages and Resources, With Some Account of their Development, Past, Present, and Future

St. Louis: Gilbert Book Co, 1881. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, x, [17]-133 pp, with frontis portrait of Roberts, with 8 chromolithograph plates and 5 lithograph maps, 4 of which are hand-colored, in original publisher's cloth. Boards show considerable insect nibbling and some soiling and p. 131/132 was detached at some time and reinserted backwards, Otherwise internally sound and clean, with all plates and maps in nice condition. Roberts was the 17th Governor of Texas, and this promotional book about the state was published while he was still in office. Clark, Travels in the New South I:185: "Roberts...had traveled over the state as a lawyer, 1841-60, and after the war had settled down and taught law. This is a worth-while account, somewhat historical and somewhat exaggerated, of the the resources and advantages of Texas by one who was familiar with the state." Howes R-344.