Accession number
PML 196407-08
Creator
Carr, Clark E. (Clark Ezra), 1836-1919.
Published
Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904.
Credit line
Purchased in 1907.
Notes
Paged continuously.
"The author of the following pages has endeavored, by interweaving facts and fiction, to give his conception of the position and influence of Illinois among the sisterhood of States, as well as his estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, when the Fugitive-slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil War"--Page vii.
Some individual items cataloged separately.
"The author of the following pages has endeavored, by interweaving facts and fiction, to give his conception of the position and influence of Illinois among the sisterhood of States, as well as his estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, when the Fugitive-slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil War"--Page vii.
Some individual items cataloged separately.
Description
2 volumes (xi, 468 pages, [20] leaves of plates) : portraits ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink below frontispiece of volume 1: Faithfully yours, Clark E. Carr.
Provenance
Bookplate of John Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
1/4 navy morocco over blue cloth, marbled edges. Bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Classification
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