first edition
1872 · New York
by (CHILDREN'S BOOKS - AMERICAN HISTORY). SHEA, JOHN GILMARY
New York: McMenamy, Hess & Co, 1872. FIRST EDITION in book form. 267 x 197 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 3/4"). Three volumes bound in two..
IN THE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE ELABORATELY GILT BROWN MOROCCO BINDING, covers lavishly gilt with a frame of interlacing floral vines, volutes, and arabesques, large allegorical centerpiece featuring Columbia sitting on a cloud, the Stars and Stripes flying from a lancet in her left hand, while her right hand clutches a sword, at her feet an eagle, wings spread, clutching arrows and olive branches in its talons and resting atop a book; raised bands, spines gilt in panels with large and intricate central fleuron, marbled endpapers, (truncated)
IN THE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE ELABORATELY GILT BROWN MOROCCO BINDING, covers lavishly gilt with a frame of interlacing floral vines, volutes, and arabesques, large allegorical centerpiece featuring Columbia sitting on a cloud, the Stars and Stripes flying from a lancet in her left hand, while her right hand clutches a sword, at her feet an eagle, wings spread, clutching arrows and olive branches in its talons and resting atop a book; raised bands, spines gilt in panels with large and intricate central fleuron, marbled endpapers, (truncated)