4 volumes, 8vo (250 x 167 mm). Frontispiece, numerous plates and in-text illustrations. Contemporary half morocco gilt (some minor wear to joints). Provenance: J. William Johnson (bookplate).Later edition (first published in 1876), of Bryant and Gay's "work for that large class who have not leisure for reading those narratives which aim at setting forth, with the greatest breadth and variety of circumstance, the annals of our nation's life." (Preface)