Description: A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee By John Esten Cooke Published: New York: D. Appleton, 1871 First Edition (same date on title and verso). 3/4 Morocco with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine. Marbled boards. Some rubbing to leather corners, slight scuffing to boards. Fold-out map at back is clean and intact. Pages/boards clean and vibrant, NO foxing or markings. Overall a very nice near-fine copy. First edition of this "early classic on the Southern hero," published shortly after Lee's death, with steel-engraved frontispiece portrait, 14 full-page illustrations and engraved portraits, and ten maps (one folding), scarce in publisher's morocco. This important contemporary biography of Lee is by historian and novelist John Cooke who, at the outbreak of war, "became an ardent secessionist and joined Confederate forces after Virginia's secession. Throughout the war he served as a staff officer in the Army of Northern Virginia, coming into close contact with Lee" (Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, 495).
Price: 450 USD
Location: Clemmons, North Carolina
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Binding: Hardcover
Origin: American
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Signed: Yes
Country of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1871
