Item #006618 THE EDWARDS PAPERS; Being a Portion of the Collection of the Letters, Papers, and Manuscripts of Ninian Edwards, Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky; First and Only Governor of Illinois Territory; One of the First Two United States. E. B. Washburne, Ninian Edwards.

THE EDWARDS PAPERS; Being a Portion of the Collection of the Letters, Papers, and Manuscripts of Ninian Edwards, Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky; First and Only Governor of Illinois Territory; One of the First Two United States...

Chicago, IL: Fergus Printing Company, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good- condition. Item #006618

xxviii, 633 pages of text including an index. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with moderate rubbing to extremities; printed paper spine labels are unfortunately heavily rubbed. Binding protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated by engraved portraits of Edwards and Daniel P. Cook and folding facsimiles of nineteen letters by Isaac N. Arnold, Marshall Field, Henry Clay, Mathew Lyon, Albert Gallatin, Shadrach Bond, Daniel P. Cook, Thomas H. Benton, Richard M. Johnson, Ninian Edwards, Rufus King, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Wirt, Felix Grundy, Daniel Webster, John McLean, and facsimiles of the autographs of Aug. Chouteau and Samuel Houston. Complete. Title continues "...Senators from the State of Illinois; Third Governr of the State of Illinois. Presented to the Chicago Historical Society, October 16th, 1883, by His Son, Ninian Wirt Edwards, Ex-Attorney-General of the State of Illinois. Edited by E.B. Washburne." Americana.

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