Life of General Taylor, the Hero of Okee Chobee, Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Montery, and Buena Vista; containing numerous anecdotes, with illustrations. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1852. [10254]
Red cloth decorated in blind & gilt, light corner wear, 7 x 4 3/4 inches, tight. Wood-engraved portait of General Taylor as President, with seven additional wood engravings of battle scenes. 227 pp., infrequent foxing. Very good. Hardcover.
One of The Young American's Library series.
"We wish, in this brief narrative of the public life of General Zachary Taylor, to appear rather as his impartial historian, than as his indiscriminate eulogist. But the splendour of his military achievements in which he has been the guiding arm, has caused an enthusiasm which is contagious; and raised a grateful tempest of praise, which would cover great faults, if there were any gross faults to conceal in his military character, or in his public life." - Preface.
