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12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Half contemporary green morocco over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments with gold borders and gold lettering; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. With the half-titles bound in, also with extra title pages for the extra volumes. Bound by H.C. Mason of Boston. Extra illustrated. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece and with 18 plates, engraved portraits of John Adams, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Volume two illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 plates, including a portrait of Frederick Douglas. Volume three illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 plates, including a plate of Queen Victoria. Volume four illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 plates. Volume five illustrated with a frontispiece, a full-page map, and 19 plates. Volume six illustrated with a frontispiece, 18 plates, two color folding maps, two full-page maps, and two in-text maps. Volume seven illustrated with a frontispiece, 21 plates, three plates of color maps, and nine color fold-out maps between volumes seven and eight. Volume eight illustrated with a frontispiece and with 17 plates besides the fold-out maps. Volume nine illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plates and with two color fold-out maps. Volume ten illustrated with a frontispiece and with 19 plates. Volume eleven illustrated with a frontispiece and with 24 plates. Volume twelve illustrated with a frontispiece and with 24 plates. The set is a comprehensive history of the period before, during and after the U.S. Civil War (including Reconstruction). The author explores the literary, political, and military history of the period, as they related to the crisis the United States found itself in at the time. Rhodes' set includes several chapters on the history of American slavery, including the physical abuse of the enslaved, the Underground Railroad, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Fugitive Slave act, John Brown's raid, with many other informative passages. He also includes a passage on the African slave trade. Much of his set is devoted to the military campaigns of the Civil War, but he considers various religious movements of the time and Transcendentalism (among other schools of literature), providing a cultural background for the events about which he writes. This set has extra volumes, as the binder split the set presumably to make the sizes of the books more reasonable, and to accomodate the extra plates. With a signed holograph letter laid in dated Jan 16 of 1909. Rhodes wrote this letter to the binder of this set, H.C. Mason, Esq., and praises him for the extra illustrations he selected for Rhodes' history. This set is also signed by the author on the tipped-in leaf which states the set is extra-illustrated. It is likely that this set belonged to Rhodes based on the content of the letter and his signature on the leaf in volume one. Also with six or so binder's slips from H.C. Mason: they contain...
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