pollard-edward-a-i-the-lost-cause-i
Lot 4090
Pollard, Edward A., The Lost Cause...
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
...a New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1867), quarto, three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt title, raised bands and embosed star-in-crescent motifs on spine, marbled endpapers and page edges, frontispiece engraving of Jefferson Davis.

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Southern MS

The front pastedown carries the library plate for Moses A. Dropsie (1821-1905), a noted Jewish attorney and philanthropist from Philadelphia.

Front cover loose at hinge with interior linen tape stabilization; normal wear, internally clean with sound binding. An attractive copy. Good condition overall.