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Three Quarter Morocco Leather. Condition: Very Good. The "Verdi" Edition. The "Verdi" Edition is strictly limited to fifty copies, and numbered in Roman numerals. This is copy no. XLV (#45 of 50). Three-quarter (3/4th) tan morocco leather binding with flower patterned silk covered boards, leather has gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, endsheet behind front board is a silver flowery silk. The other endsheet is a linen backed thick stock paper. Numerous in-text mezzo and sepia tinted illustration with 5 full page tipped on plates. Part 7 of a 10 part set. Pages 315-363. Light edge wear with the full page plate paper slightly age-toned at edges. Heavy rubbing at top end at the silk. Else in VERY GOOD PLUS condition. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition blue green cloth boards with black front cover illustration and gilt front cover and spine lettering. Includes Introduction: The World Should Know by General Fitzhugh Lee. Copiously illustrated with black and white photographic plates and a black-and-white photographic portrait plate frontispiece of President McKinley with an obverse page consisting of a facsimile McKinley letter re: receiving the artist's proof of the "engraved portrait of myself". Some light blotching mainly along the rear spine edge. (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square. Major sections of the volume are as follows: William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; Anarchy; Our Colonies; The Income Tax; The Monroe Doctrine; The Trust Question; The Proposed Isthmian Canal; Great Questions by Great Statesmen; The National Cabinet; Men of National Mark; The Supreme Court of the United States; and Senators and Members of the Fifty-Sixth Congress.