8vo (195 x 115mm). (Some dampstaining to upper inner margins, some minor browning). Original publisher’s cloth (spine ends, joints and extremities repaired, upper hinge reinforced). Provenance: Millard Fillmore (see below); Grover W. Wende (bookplate). 

MILLARD FILLMORE’S COPY, SIGNED THREE TIMES: on front pastedown (“Millard Fillmore / Buffalo New York”), vertically on the front free endpaper (“Millard Fillmore / Buffalo”), and at the head of the title-page (“Millard Fillmore”, with shelfmark below). 

 

Fillmore lived in Buffalo, New York for many years before his election as vice president under Zachary Taylor, establishing both a family and a highly successful law firm in northern New York. He was also an avid reader who was the first to establish a library in the White House when he discovered its lack of reading material. Grover William Wende (1866-1926), a prominent physician and graduate of University of Buffalo Medical School, who was also a Professor in the Medical School for many years. He served on the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee for the detection and treatment of venereal and skin diseases during World War I. Grover W. Wende Hall at Buffalo State University was named in recognition of his work there in the 1970s, and is now home to the University’s School of Nursing.