2 volumes. [v]-x, [2], [xi]-xvii, [1], [xiii]-xx, [9]-545 + [2] ad; [2], viii, [9]-525 pp.; errata leaf. Stipple-engraved frontispiece of a bust of Jefferson; extra-illustrated with 60 plates including engravings of copper & steel, lithographs, etc., many inlaid to size; A.L.s. from the author to a Mrs. Robert Gilman, 3 pages plus address, bound in. 9½x5¾, later full maroon straight-grain morocco with decorative gilt-roll borders, spines elaborately tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; bound by A. Taffin.
Handsome, extra-illustrated set of this noteworthy biography of Thomas Jefferson, featuring numerous portraits of the third president and his contemporaries, plus a letter from the author dated the year this book was published.