Beautiful Engravings
A beautiful set of 48 high quality steel engravings from an 1888 book 
Beautiful engravings of people who were famous in the late 1880’s, Presidents, politicians, and literature figures. Also has signatures below portrait. These are steel etched engravings bound into the book and not printed lithograph portraits. This includes biographical information on subject.
Very frameable and most of the foxing can be covered by matting.
close up on detail. This picture does not do them justice.
Included are
Adams | John |
Adams | John Quiney |
Arthur | Chester A |
Bancroft | George |
Benton | Thomas Hart |
Bryant | William Cullen |
Buchanan | James |
Calhoun | John Caldwell |
Clay | Henry |
Cooper | James Fenimore |
Dix | John |
Emerson | Ralph Waldo |
Farragut | David Glasgow |
Fillmore | Millard |
Franklin | Benjamin |
Fulton | Robert |
Garfield | James |
Grant | Ulysses S |
Greeley | Horace |
Greene | Nathanael |
Hamilton | Alexander |
Handcock | Winfred |
Harrison | William Henry |
Harrison | Benjamin |
Hayes | Rutherford Brichard |
Irving | Washington |
Jackson | Andrew |
Jefferson | Thomas |
Johnson | Andrew |
Lee | Robert E |
Lincoln | Abraham |
Longfellow | Henry Wadsdworth |
Madison | James |
Marshall | John |
McCellan | George |
McDonald | John |
Monroe | James |
Morse | Sam |
Peabody | George |
Pedro | D |
Penn | William |
Shakespeare | William |
Taylor | Zachary |
Thomas | Sir George |
Van Buren | Martin |
Waite | Morrison Remick |
Washington | George |
Webster | Daniel |
Whittier | John Greenleaf |
A few examples