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Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia, Containing many Interesting and Valuable Reminiscences Connected With The Whole State, Including Numerous Incidents and Facts never Before Published and of Great Historic Value.
Butler, John C. · Macon, Georgia
- Author
- Butler, John C.
- Date
- 1879
- Place
- Macon, Georgia
- Publisher
- J.W. Burke & Co.
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(4.75" x 7.75") First Edition. 351 pp, 28 pp ads at rear. Full blue cloth with embossed decoration to both covers, gilt lettering to upper board, lacking spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Covers stained, scuffed, and soiled. Brown endpapers with prior owners name neatly in old ink to the front pastedown, a different owner in pencil to the first free endpaper, and again in pencil to the first free flyleaf. The first several leaves barely attached at spine, pg. vii/viii laid in. many pages with chips and/or closed tears to their fore-edge. Some pencil underlining seen within text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the Macon Confederate Monument, and a plate depicted Fort Hawkins to page 61. All appears present, just not in great shape (see pics).
- Format
- Scarce in any condition.
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.8233
Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia, Containing many Interesting and Valuable Reminiscences Connected With The Whole State, Including Numerous Incidents and Facts never Before Published and of Great Historic Value. John C. Butler. 1879. Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke & Co. 8vo.(4.75" x 7.75") First Edition. 351 pp, 28 pp ads at rear. Full blue cloth with embossed decoration to both covers, gilt lettering to upper board, lacking spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Covers stained, scuffed, and soiled. Brown endpapers with prior owners name neatly in old ink to the front pastedown, a different owner in pencil to the first free endpaper, and again in pencil to the first free flyleaf. The first several leaves barely attached at spine, pg. vii/viii laid in. many pages with chips and/or closed tears to their fore-edge. Some pencil underlining seen within text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the Macon Confederate Monument, and a plate depicted Fort Hawkins to page 61. All appears present, just not in great shape (see pics). Scarce in any condition.
Condition
Poor, but complete
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