1855 Book The Republican Court; or, American Society in the Days of Washington. With Twenty-one Steel Portraits of Distinguished Women

Size 8.25” x 11.3/8” 408 pages. Has some writing in beginning of book, staining and foxing on pages, Marbleized Endpapers, minor wear on book covers, small separation at joints but secure.(See Photos)

The Republican Court; or, American Society in the Days of Washington. With Twenty-one Portraits of Distinguished Women, Engraved from Original Pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Gainsborough, Stuart, Trumbull, Pine, Malbone, and Other Contemporary Painters

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot

Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York., 1855

Hard cover. - D. Appleton & Co, New York 1855, 408pp., bound. - First edition, illustrated with 21 steel portraits of women in American society. Publisher's binding in full black period shagreen. Back with raised bands, 5 ornate boxes, roulette in the tail of the head. Central cold medallion on the flat circled with a rich ornamented frame with foliage and flowers. History of the United States after the War of Independence under the governance of Washington. The title presents an ironic aspect by referring to the monarchy when it was for the first elected president to develop a constitution and a new society. The majority of the book is devoted to Washington's presidency, first in New York, then in Philadelphia. Rufus Griswold (1815-1857) was a famous American critic and journalist who reigned over the world of letters, he remained famous for his conflict with Edgar Allan Poe.

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