The Ladies of the White House, Or, in the Home of the Presidents: Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents From Washington to Hayes--1789-1880

Philadelphia: Bradley & Company, 1881 (1869). First thus. Quarto in red cloth boards with black and gilt stamping; 4 unnumbered pages, xxxii pages, 11-598 pages, 26 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, portraits; 23 cm About very good to very good(-), with ornate cover and quality plates and illustrations protected by tissue guard; with considerable fraying and staining to boards, chiefly at edges and corners; partial starting at hinges (neatly re-glued but still showing slightly); personal ex libris sticker has glue shadow; pages are unmarked if occasionally age-toned and/or foxed; binding is a bit shaken but very much intact. Hardcover.

Lovely b&w plates of first ladies. Contents: Martha Washington. Mrs. Abigail Adams. Martha Jefferson. Dorothy Paine Madison. Eliza K. Monroe. Louisa Catharine Adams. Rachel Jackson. Mrs. Emily Donelson. Sarah Yorke Jackson. Hannah Van Buren. Angelica Van Buren. Anna Symmes Harrison. Letitia Christian Tyler. Julia Gardner Tyler. Sarah Childress Polk. Margaret Taylor. Abigail Fillmore. Mary Abigail Fillmore. Mrs. Jane Appleton Pierce. Harriet Lane. Mary Todd Lincoln. Eliza McCardle Johnson. Martha Johnson Patterson. Mary Stover. Julia Dent Grant. Lucy Webb Hayes. Notes: Engravings variously signed: Photo by G.D. Wakely; Eng'd by J.C. Buttre N.Y.; Painted by Woolaston; Eng'd by J.C. Buttre; Painted by G. Stuart; Engraved by G.F. Storm; Engd by J. Serz, Phila.; Drawn by J. Herring after J. Wood; Engraved by J.F.E. Prudhomme; Painted by C.R. Leslie; Engraved by G.F. Storm; Engd by H.B. Hall N.Y.; Engraved by Samuel Sartain, Phila.; Photo by Brady; Eng. by Samuel Sartain, Phila.; Engraved by John Sartain, Phila.

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