Mabie, Hamilton W.; Bright, Marshal H. The Memorial Story of America comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents which make up The Record of Four Hundred Years from 1492 to 1892. Philadelphia, &c.: John C. Winston & Co., 1893. Authors Edition. [12018]
Dark green cloth bordered in black, gilt titles and illustrations to front and spine, edges worn with some fraying of the spine ends & corner tips, 10 1/2 x 8 inches. 851 clean pp., 350 b/w illustrations. Good. Hardcover.
"With Over 350 Illustrations."
"This volume has been prepared in the hope that it will present the life of the American people so clearly, vividly and comprehensively that the unity and magnitude of that life will be more evident than they have ever been before. A great people in a great country has so many occupations, so many kinds of wealth, such differences of condition, that it loses at times the consciousness of its family ties and affections. There are so many kinds of Americans, they are so widely scattered, and they are busy with such manifold interests, that the homestead is in great danger of being neglected by the children, and the sense of kinship is likely to be lost in the diversity of interests...To know the American you must know his ancestry and how he came where he now is; that record is made here with a broad completeness which brings out the immense variety and volume of race force and character behind the people on this continent." - Introduction.
