[Rarebooks] FS: Bancroft's HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 9 vols. bound in half red calf

[Charles Agvent]

BANCROFT, George. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE  DISCOVERY

OF  THE  AMERICAN  CONTINENT.  Boston: Little  Brown  1866-1867.  Nine

volumes  uniformly  bound in half polished red calf with calf  corners

and  marbled boards and endpapers with black leather author and  title

spine  labels  and  gilt  spine decorations. Later  editions  of  all,

without   the  tenth  and  last   volume  not  published  until  1874.

Illustrated  with  seven portraits and five maps. These  nine  volumes

begin  with the discovery of the continent and end with the Revolution

in  1778.  Though Bancroft's style was often turgid, his  history  was

far  superior  to anything previously published on the subject and  is

still  of great interest today. He "took the subject out of the  hands

of  mere annalists and commentators, and raised it to the dignity  and

interest  of  philosophical  narration"   (Duyckinck,  CYCLOPAEDIA  OF

AMERICAN  LITERATURE,  p. 99). Howes B-88; New Howes B-84. Two  labels

lacking,  five others chipped. Some rubbing to joints and spines,  but

covers  very  tight and contents very clean. A more  than  presentable

set of this important work. Very Good                          $350.00


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