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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR by Miller, Francis Trevelyan; Lanier, Robert S.

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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
Author
Miller, Francis Trevelyan; Lanier, Robert S.
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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New York: Review of Review Co, 1911. Third issue. Very good.. First edition of this towering landmark of Civil War history, "the grandfather of pictorial histories" (Eicher) with nearly 3400 photographs of battlefields, artillery, enlisted personnel and officers, prisons, hospitals, camps, and maps, with text by veterans. While images from the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and the Crimean War (1853-56) exist, no conflict prior to the American Civil War was so extensively captured via the new medium of photography. Photographers in both the North and the South - including Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George S. Cook, McPherson & Oliver - distilled for public audiences the brutality of battle and its shattering aftereffects in ways little seen before: "If [they have] not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, [they have] done something very like it[.]" Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the War's beginning, PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR gathered thousands of images - many published here for the first time - from historical societies, universities, various state and federal governmental departments, and the general public itself. Each of the ten volumes groups material thematically: (1) The Opening Battles, (2) Two Years of Grim War, (3) The Decisive Battles, (4) The Cavalry, (5) Forts and Artillery, (6) The Navies, (7) Prisons and Hospitals, (8) Soldier Life / Secret Service, (9) Poetry and Eloquence, and (10) Armies and Leaders. The bedrock of any Civil War collection. Increasingly scarce in such collectible condition. 10 volumes, 11'' x 8.5''. Original blue "silk" cloth with blind-stamped military regalia to front board and gilt-lettered spine. Top edges gilt. Patterned endpapers with vignette portraits of Grant & Lee (front) and Lincoln & Davis (rear). Volume 10 with third issue index. Pages ranging from about 320-370 each. Light wear to spine ends, minor rubbing to boards with a few spots of soil, light scattered foxing to fore-edges and some front matter. Volume 9 with abrasion to lower corner of rear board. Bright overall.
THE DANCE OF DEATH PAINTED BY H. HOLBEIN AND ENGRAVED BY W. HOLLAR [bound with] THE DANCE OF MACABER

THE DANCE OF DEATH PAINTED BY H. HOLBEIN AND ENGRAVED BY W. HOLLAR [bound with] THE DANCE OF MACABER

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THE DANCE OF DEATH PAINTED BY H. HOLBEIN AND ENGRAVED BY W. HOLLAR [bound with] THE DANCE OF MACABER
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The Book Block (United States)
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[London James Edwards, 1789]. 8vo., very handsome full polished calf with a series of decorative borders (gilt and blind) in the manner of Edwards of Halifax; spine with five raised bands and a black morocco label with gilt and blind decoration within the compartments. A.e.g., pink endleaves.Based upon Holbein's original 15th century designs, Wenceslaus Hollar, the Bohemian etcher born in Prague in 1607 created copper plates for his own Dance of Death. In 1647 an edition of 30 copperplates was brought out in London; another edition from these plates was published in 1651. The plates then disappeared from sight until the late 18th century when several editions from the "newly discovered" plates began to appear. The copperplates apparently came into the hands of an English family of nobility, from whom the bookseller, Edwards, obtained them. We have compared the plates of our edition with the plates of the ALSO SCARCE 1804 edition (printed by C. Whittingham for John Harding) and with the more common 1816 edition (printed by B. McMillan for J. Coxhead) and notice unmistakable differences in small details, which may be the result of the copperplates having been "rebitten with great care," according to Douce, or entirely recut.The title-page of our edition carries no place, date of publication, or publisher's name. We have inferred, however, that is it the 1789 printing of the plates (before the rebiting); the 1794 Edwards edition (See: No. 249 in the Minns Catalogue) is described thus, "Printed from the original plates rebitten with great care to prevent injury in the retouching."See: Warthin, A. The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 72-76. Douce, F. Holbein's Dance of Death. pp. 111-113. IN QUITE A FINE BINDING

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