Title: The Republican Court or American Society in the Days of Washington Author: Griswold, Rufus Wilmot Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Date: 1856 Description: iv, [4], 408 pp. Illustrated with 21 steel-engraved portrait plates of distinguished women of the day, from original pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Gainsborough, Stuart, Trumbull, Pine, Malbone, and other contemporary painters. 10¾x7½, bound in full brown deeply embossed morocco decoratively tooled in gilt, with raised red, white and blue shield in center of front & rear covers, raised bands, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, gilt endpapers, gilt inner dentelles, gilt gauffered page edges. Sumptuously bound. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a little rubbing to joints and extremities, front hinge cracking before frontispiece, near fine. Item number: 168179
Title: The Republican Court or American Society in the Days of Washington Author: Griswold, Rufus Wilmot Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Date: 1856 Description: iv, [4], 408 pp. Illustrated with 21 steel-engraved portrait plates of distinguished women of the day, from original pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Gainsborough, Stuart, Trumbull, Pine, Malbone, and other contemporary painters. 10¾x7½, bound in full brown deeply embossed morocco decoratively tooled in gilt, with raised red, white and blue shield in center of front & rear covers, raised bands, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, gilt endpapers, gilt inner dentelles, gilt gauffered page edges. Sumptuously bound. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a little rubbing to joints and extremities, front hinge cracking before frontispiece, near fine. Item number: 168179
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