A HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT AS A STATE IN 1818 TO 1847. CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR, THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND FALL OF MORMONISM, THE ALTON AND LOVEJOY RIOTS, AND OTHER IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING EVENTS

Ford, Thomas (Gov.)

Published by S. C. Griggs & Co. (and published in New York, by Ivison and Phinney, Chicago (*and New York), 1854

About this Item

Octavo. Original binding. Half-bound, dark-brown morocco (goatskin) over marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine (six compartments), with title in gilt to second compartment down. Contrasting label of previous owner, gilt on black, with upper corner missing, affixed to bottom of spine. Penciled signature and 1856 date to front free endpaper of Elias Willits (1826-1881), an Illinois attorney, war claims agent, and county judge who settled in Monmouth, Illinois in his mid-thirties, but died early, at age 55 of a lingering illness. Publisher's round blind-embossed stamp to front free endpaper. 447 pp. plus 8 pp. adverts for Ivison and Phinney to rear. Rubbing, wear and some peeling to leather (front upper corner) but quite solidly bound. Beautiful marbled endpapers of red, orange, blue and grey, with two rub1through spots to these endpapers. Marbled edges. Spotting to just one or so pages, but the remainder of textblock, bright pages, and supple to touch and turn. (Howes, F-254).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT AS A STATE IN 1818 TO 1847. CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR, THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND FALL OF MORMONISM, THE ALTON AND LOVEJOY RIOTS, AND OTHER IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING EVENTS
• Publisher: S. C. Griggs & Co. (and published in New York, by Ivison and Phinney, Chicago (*and New York)
• Publication Date: 1854
• Binding: Leather-bound
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana