Steel Engravings of the Portraits of American Statesmen and Civil Officers

James L. Alcorn; W.H. Barnes

Washington, D.C. : W.H. Barnes & Co., 1876

[The Era of Reconstruction: Rare first edition containing portraits of notable American politicians]  Bound in contemporary 1/2 morocco over brown cloth.  Gilt ruled.  All edges gilt. Gilt spine compartments.  Minor shelf wear, a few scuffs.  28.5 x 21.8 cm. Heavy foxing throughout. 148 steel-engraved, tissue-guarded plates.  Each portrait includes a facsimile signature. 

Some of the notables include: President Ulysses S. Grant; Hannibal Hamlin (ME), William P. Fessenden (ME), Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (NJ), James A. Garfield (OH, future President), Robert C. De Large (Senator, South Carolina, African American) and Robert B. Elliott, (Senator, South Carolina, African American).   Quite scarce.  

Inscribed by Senator James L. Alcorn (Reconstruction-era, Republican of Mississippi, first photograph show) to Anne Alcorn.