New York: P.F. Collier, 1877. 5th edition. Hardcover. 506p.
A purple cloth hardcover book with elaborate gilt
decorations on the front cover and spine. Good condition overall. Fading
on spine and back cover. A few tiny dents on side edge of back cover.
Staining on top and side edges, bleeding onto the endpapers and faintly
into some page margins. Foxing on first and last several leaves, and
pages uniformly age-toned. Text is otherwise unmarked, and binding
tight. Item #186702
A biography of Pope Pius IX, published about a year before his death.