Description

Title:
The Universal Biographical Dictionary; Embracing the Most Eminent Characters of Every Age, Nation, and Profession
ISBN: No ISBN
Book #: 009065

Author: Davenport, R. A.
Illustrator: n/a
Publisher: Leavitt, Trow & Co.
Place: New York
Year: 1849
Edition: Edition Unstated

Book Cond.: Fair Condition
Jacket Cond.: No Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Size: Octavo (standard book size)
Book Type: n/a
Signed: n/a

Description / Comments:
Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight. Black gilt stamped and decorated cloth over boards, illustrated by 200 fine portraits, 527 pages, small portraits of many of the important personages in the text. Covers scuffed and worn, bumped at corners, spine ends bumped and chipped, some light foxing throughout. Including Painters, Poets, Philosophers, Politicians, Heroes, Warriors, Historians, Statesman, Divines, Lawyers, Judges, Physicians, Inventors, Discoverers, and All Such Persons As Have, from the Earliest Periods, Been Distinguished among Mankind: to Which Is Added a History of the Heroes and Divinities of Roman and Grecian Mythology, and a Notice of Eminent Living Characters. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 3 oz. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 009065.