Description
First edition of the Memoir Of The Life Of John Quincy Adams by Josiah Quincy.
Octavo, x, 429pp. Publisher’s textured brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of J.Q. Adams with tissue cover, foxing to portrait. Solid text block. Previous ownership inscription on front endpaper of R & D.G. Siegel. (Sabin 67218) An attractive example of this early biography of President John Quincy Adams.
The first edition appeared in 1858, also printed by Phillips, Sampson and Company of Boston.
