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"The
grandfather of pictorial histories, this mammoth work is a necessary
part of any Civil War library. The work contains 3,389 images that
constitute an important source on the war's appearance—its
battlefields, common soldiers, officers, forts, diseases, camp scenes,
army movements, and materiel." Eicher, The Civil War in Books
771.
MILLER, Francis Trevelyan. The
Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: The Review of Reviews,
1911. Quarto, original blue cloth gilt. Ten volumes. $1800.00
First editions of all ten volumes of Miller’s famous photo-documentary
of the Civil War. A beautiful set in unusually fine condition.
Miller’s work "still remains the major source for photographs of
the Civil War; the greatest single collection of Brady
illustrations" (Allan Nevins). The Mathew Brady photographs
represent the first instance of a comprehensive photo-documentation of a
war. As the New York Times reported, Brady had brought "home to us
the terrible reality and earnestness of war." Only slight, minimal
wear to spine extremities; slight, inoffensive 1/2 inch tear to spine of
volume 6. Cloth bindings uncommonly clean and in exceptionally fine
condition with gilt and cloth very bright. |
