From 1899, a handsome two volume set, Old Virginia and her Neighbors by John Fiske. The neighbors are Maryland and North Carolina. Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Sized 8x5 inches. Beautifully bound in red wine colored cloth, gilt titles. Over 800 pages. Illustrated with multiple maps (see our example).
John Fiske was university lecturer on philosophy at Harvard, from 1869 to 1871. In 1870 instructor in history there, and assistant librarian 1872–1879. On resigning the latter position in 1879, he was elected a member of the board of overseers, and at the expiration of the six-year term was re-elected in 1885. Beginning in 1881, he lectured annually on American history at Washington University in St. Louis and beginning in 1884 held a professorship of American history at that institution, but continued to make his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lectured on American history at University College London in 1879, and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1880. He gave many hundreds of lectures, chiefly upon American history, in the principal cities of the United States and Great Britain. Fiske was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1884.