National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century; with Memoirs, by William Jordan, Esq. F.S.A., Dedicated, By Permission, to The King, Vol. II&III, Fisher, Son, & Jackson, London, 1831, 3/4 leather, 7.5 x 11", 8vo

Fair condition.  Wear to front and rear boards.  Tips are bumped and edges are scuffed.  Cracking to spine, but dentelle and title are still intact.  Hinges are cracked.  Gift inscription on flyleaf (Caroline Parkman, from her husband, Dec. 25, 1843).  Frontispiece of King George IV opposite title page.  Toning and age-staining throughout textblock.  Includes 36 plates (not including frontispiece) with accompanying memoir of the subject.  Please see photos.

Please note that this listing is for vol. II and vol. III bound as one.

The item in this listing was previously owned by Caroline (Hall) Parkman, mother of Francis Parkman Jr.  Francis (16 September 1823 - 8 November 1893) was an American historian, best known as the author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.  These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have been met with criticism.  He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University, and the first leader of the Arnold Arboretum, authoring several books on the topic.