Biographies of the Successful Philadelphia Merchants
first edition Hardcover
1864 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
by Winslow, Stephen Noyes
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: James K. Simon, 1864. Original, First. Hardcover. Good, Wear and loss to spine ends, corners worn with some small loss. Pages clean, occasional foxing, particlarly on plates. Former owner label inside cover, pencil notation on ffep.. Geen paper with stamped design and gilt titling, gilt edges. 245 pp. Several BW plates. Summarized from the introduction: Biographical sketches written of bank presidents of Philadelphia, first published in 1860 and '61, drew protests from all but one of those described. Later issues of the Commercial List of Philadelphia looked at successful merchants, and despite the ensuing protests, the appeal to the intended audience was too great to be denied. Here are published those sketches. "We enliven our recital by such incidents as appear instructive to the young and interesting to the old. Personal gossip, when reliable, is not disdained, nor graphic pen-portraits omitted. (Inventory #: 130075)