| "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
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. |
