National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from Original Full Length Paintings by Alonzo Chappel., with Biographical and Historical Narratives.

vii, [3], 488; iv, [2], 470 pp. 4to. Original dark brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved portraits throughout. A collection of 119 biographical sketches of important American citizens, with portraits reproduced from paintings by Alonzo Chappel.