Duyckink, E.A. "National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans.from Original Paintings by Alonzo Chappel. 2 volumes."

E.A. Duyckink. National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans.from Original Paintings by Alonzo Chappel. 2 volumes.

Extra illustrated title page, frontispieces, and hundreds of fine full-page engraved portraits. Quarto, brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands. New York: Johnson, Fry and Co., [1861]. Octavo. Hardcover. Good condition. Tissue guards and some pages lightly foxed.

With biographical and historical narratives by Duyckinck. Includes portraits by Chappel of orators, statesmen, naval and military heroes, jurists, authors, et al.