James Louis Petigru a Biographical Sketch

Harper & Brothers, NY, 1866; First Edition; sm 8vo, 178 pages; brown cloth; beveled board edges; gilt titles; chocolate brown end papers; frontispiece engraved portrait plate, with guard tissue. James Grayson’s compelling biography of his fellow Southerner and lifelong friend James Louis Petigru, lawyer, orator, attorney general for the state of South Carolina, judge, and president of the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original cloth, gilt-lettered facsimile signature of Petigru on front cover, gilt-lettered title stamped on spine. Half title, portrait of Petigru [loosened] with original tissue guard. Faint blindstamp. xvii, [2 blanks], [19]-178 pp. Old bookplate on front pastedown, else Very Good. An elite South Carolinian, Petigru was an excellent lawyer who opposed nullification,… Read more about this item