Author: Wheaton, David
Publisher: Wever & Co
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued
Publisher’s green cloth with titles and designs in black and gilt, boards with beveled edges; Text block is marbled; tissue-guarded frontispiece and several interior plates; additional illustrations and diagrams with ornamental chapter headers. 8vo, 8,5 inches tall; 747 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with tiny corner rubs. Preliminaries are tender. An undetermined signature is below the author’s name on the title page. A humanist approach to the scientific and cultural of roles of men and women during the Gilded Era in the United States.
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