493 + [8] ad pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. (8vo), original blindstamped black cloth, spine gilt. Housed in a custom green morocco and cloth drop-back box. First Edition thus.
One of a number of campaign biographies of Fremont that were produced in the run-up to the election of 1856, when he stood as the first Republican candidate for president. The text is largely based on his 1845 Report. Wagner-Camp 115:24.