Life and Public Services of Henry Clay Down to 1848 by Sargent, Epes, & Horace Greeley - 1854

Auburn, N.Y.: Derby & Miller, 1852. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown roan. Near fine. 492 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Steel engraved frontispiece of Clay. Clean copy in contemporary binding, slight text age-toning, small chip to red leather spine label, nick at head, book label, and binder's stamp of Noble & Kelley of Utica, NY.

Derby & Miller, New York, 1852. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. This hardcover book is Fine, being square and tight, except as noted. The green boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The blind stamp on the boards is sharp. The points have moderate touching and there is moderate wear at the extremities of the spine. There is also a slight 1/2 inch split to the cloth at the upper edge of the spine. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. There is some spotting to the first few pages up to the title page. The tissue at the frontispiece is intact. No jacket, as issued. 492 pages with several pages of advertised books. This is stated to be in the fourth thousand printing. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1852. Stated as Alta Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good. 423, [5], 4, [2] pages. Cecorative cover. Frontispiece. Bookplate of Lisette Stephens inside the front cover. Sticker of J. R. Ewing & Co. inside the front cover. Stamp of a book seller on the fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. Small tear at top of fep. Epes Sargent (September 27, 1813- December 30, 1880) was an American editor, poet and playwright. Epes Sargent was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on September 27, 1813, where his father was a ship master. In 1818 the family moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts. From 1823 to 1829 he attended the Boston Latin School, but his education was put on hold while he traveled for six months to Saint Petersburg, Russia with his father. Upon his return he helped start the school's first literary journal, where he wrote about his travels to Russia. He then attended Harvard University where he contributed to the Harvard Collegian, a college literary journal… Read More