THE IMPERIAL HIGHWAY 1886 Road to Fortune & Happiness Biographies Self-made Men

Complete title: The Imperial Highway or, the Road to Fortune and Happiness, with Biographies of Self-Made Men, Their Business Traits, Qualities and Habits” by Jerome Paine Bates. 

Includes three parts: Part 1 Success in Business Life, Part 2 Happiness in Social and Family Life, and Part III The Highway to Eternal Life (religion, repentance, sin and pardon faith, prayer, conscience, etc.).  

Biographies include Garfield, Lincoln, Lee, Jackson, Vanderbilt, Howe, Gladstone and  Bismarck.  

Chicago: The National Library Association, 1886.  

HC, 811 pp., illustrated, marbled page edges, gilt cover.  

Book is 6 X 9-1/2 X 2-1/2 inches; weighs 3-1/2 lbs.  Cover shows wear - see photos; interior complete and in very fine condition.