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1883 · 41386 — Chicago: the society 1883. 8vo. 10 pp. printed double-column. Illustrated with seven full-page photographs mounted on heavier stock. Bound with seven other pamphlets by Arnold. Somewhat later red three-quarter morocco gilt marbled boards and endpapers spine gilt titled and tooled t.e.g. Fine copy. First edition or first separate edition of all seven pamphlets. Inscribed on a blank endpaper by the author in 1883. The essay on Cooper is quite scarce; OCLC locates but three copies Chicago Historical Society Harvard Maryland-Baltimore County. The photographs include a portrait of Cooper images of his homes and grave and two scenes of Lake Otsego. The other Arnold pamphlets bound herein: 1 ADDRESS on the early history of Chicago before the Chicago Historical Society November 19 1868 Chicago 1877 mounted photograph frontispiece portrait of the author 2 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EARLY CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS BAR Chicago 1880; 3 REMINISCENCES OF THE ILLINOIS BAR FORTY YEARS AGO: LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS AS ORATORS AND LAWYERS Chicago 1881; 4 WILLIAM B. OGDEN AND EARLY DAYS IN CHICAGO Chicago 1881; 5 REMINISCENCES OF LINCOLN AND OF CONGRESS DURING THE REBELLION in "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record New York 1882; 6 THE LAYMAN'S FAITH Chicago 1882; and 7 BENEDICT ARNOLD AT SARATOGA NP 1880. Arnold 1815-1884 was a native of Otsego County New York studied law and removed to Chicago in 1836 the year before its incorporation. He became one of the city's most important lawyers served in Congress during the Civil War helped found the Chicago Historical Society and published a number of works on American history see DAB. <br/><br/> the society?] hardcover books