Nason, Elias. The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education, and Public Career. Boston: B. B. Russell, 1874. First Edition. [10859]
Green cloth, worn at the edges and a bit soiled, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, small ink name stamps on the front end papers. Steel engraved portrait of Sumner with printed signature and tissue guard. 356 pages, infrequent foxing, tidemark in the upper margin of the first few leaves. Good. Hardcover.
"The design of this work is to set forth in distinct relief the life, character, and public career of an accomplished scholar, an incorruptible statesman, and an eminent and eloquent defender of human freedom...In the late tremendous struggle for human freedom he stood forth pre-eminent as a prophet, as a leader, as a counselor, as an unflinching friend of the oppressed; and to his brave outlook over the whole field of contest, to his extensive knowledge of political history, to his grand ideal of a perfect commonwealth, and to his impassioned eloquences, must be in part ascribed the ardor which inspired our Union army, and the success which crowned the contest." - Preface.
