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

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