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2 volumes. First Illustrated Edition and the best of all editions. Extensively Illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, views, prints, and other images reproduced from historic sources. With a great profusion of illustrations both within the text and on full-page plates throughout both volumes. Tall, thick 8vo, in a very handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter red morocco over red and gold marbled paper covered boards, the spine with compartments between raised bands ruled in blind, two of the compartments gilt lettered, end-leaves marbled, t.e.g. xxxviii, 351; xxiii, [1], 321 pp. A pleasing and attractive copy, very handsomely bound and in an excellent state of preservation, a bit of very slight rubbing to the head of the spine panel.

Edizione: a finely bound copy of the best edition of john fiske's excellent and scholarly work. fiske begins his work by writing that his design was not so much to contribute new facts as to shape the narrative in such a way as to emphasize relations of cause and effect that are often buried in the mass of details. this work, rather than being based upon lectures, was itself the basis for many lectures that fiske gave throughout the 1880's. it contains the chapters which discuss all elements of the beginnings of the revolution until the surrender at yorktown. there are a profusion of maps, diagrams and illustrations throughout.<br> the author wrote a series of books on american history, all of which remain very well regarded. an instructor of history at both harvard and washington university he was famous for his many hundreds of lectures, chiefly upon american history, in the principal cities of both the united states and great britain. he was also a very early proponent of charles darwin, whose work he was instrumental in popularizing. in a letter to fiske from darwin, dated from 1874, the naturalist remarks: "i never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are."