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Obituary Addressed on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts Secretary of State for the United States: Delivered in the Senate and in the House of Representatives of the United States Fourteenth and Fifteenth December 1852
185342746Washington DC: Robert Armstrong 1853. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with modern black cloth tape spine. 86pp. Frontisiece. Good plus. Although internally tight and near fine the binding corners are bumped and the spine bears modern black cloth tape; lacks rear flyleaf. A tight decent first edition in the striking boards bearing a deeply blind-embossed "He Still Lives" and "Daniel Webster" ornament and superb steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait "Engraved by W.H. Dougal from a Daguerreotype by Whipple." Interesting nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf: "Presented to E.G. Ryan Esqr / for his little son / by Jas. L. Woodside / Washington May 1854." Edward George Ryan 1810-80 was a well-known lawyer judge and politician of Madison Wisconsin while Woodside was an obscure government official who served as clerk of the House Committee of Claims. Robert Armstrong hardcover
