[Rarebooks] FS: Rare publisher's extra-illus. autobiography of Gen. Winfield Scott. NY: 1864

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Scott, Winfield. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LIEUT.-GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT. With Extra Illustrations. New York: Sheldon & Company. 1864. Lg. 8vo. 2 vols. (4),274;(2),(275)-653,(1)pp. Index. Illustrated with 2 steel engraved frontispiece portraits, plus an additional total of 89 added steel engraved plates (total count = 91). Some of the plates are inlaid, others india proofs. Each plate faces a blank guard leaf. Finely bound in 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over marbled boards. T.e.g. A fine set.      $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The rare extra illustrated edition, apparently issued by the publisher Sheldon & Co., as his imprint is found on both printed added title pages, although I have not been able to find another similar set. Howes. The Final Edition. S245.

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