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Very Good- First Edition, 1857 printed on title page. VERY GOOD-. Two-volume set. Books are internally near fine; pages clean, fresh and unmarked; rear board of Vol. 1 detached. Books are bound in half brown morocco leather (spines and corners) with marbled paper over boards. Spines gilt titled, 5 raised spine bands. Matching marbled endpapers; all page edges marbled. The covers are clean though moderately rubbed and heavily edge worn, with chipping to spine ends, cracking to leather along hinges. The rear board of Vol. 1 has detached, though it is present. Book blocks are firmly bound. Includes 14 tissue-protected steel engraved portraits, including frontispiece portraits of James Otis and John Marshall. Among the orators included: Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Benjamin Rush, Robert T. Livingston, Charles and William Pinkney, Luther Martin, Red Jacket, Gouverneur Morris, De Witt Clinton, Rufus King, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Tecumseh, Daniel Webster, William Wirt, John Caldwell Calhoun, Robert Y. Hayne, Seargent S. Prentiss and many more. 6-1/2 x 9-3/4". Vol. 1: vi + 576 pages. Vol. 2: vi + 614 pages, including index (Plus 14 plates). A heavy set, will require additional postage for overseas or international mailing,