First edition. Biographical sketches of Alexander Hand, Charles B. Tanner, James Parke Postles, John B. Maberry, Bernard McCarren, John Shilling III, Henry Algernon du Pon, David Eastburn Buckingham, Samuel Rodmond Smith, Griffin Seward, Leonard Chadwick, Charles Henry Pierce, William Lloyd Nelson and James P. Connor. Some illustrations. Signed by the author. .