THE LIFE OF HORACE GREELEY, editor of the New York Tribune.
Pp. 442 (stereotyped), 5 wood engraved plates with tissue guards (including 2 frontispiece portraits), full page facsimile; cr. 8vo; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, the spine faintly faded; a few leaves carelessly opened and chipped at edges, scattered foxing; Mason Brothers, New York, 1855. First edition. Sabin 58954. *Horace Greeley (1811-1872) was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune. He was active in politics, serving briefly as a congressman from New York and in 1854 he helped found the Republican Pary. The plates are by Alfred Swinton after illustrations by Alfred R. Waud. Item #174646
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