Webster, Daniel. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster (1885)

Webster, Daniel; Whipple, Edwin P. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, with an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style, by Edwin P. Whipple. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1884. [9259] Half black morocco bordered in gilt, raised bands to spine with gilt devices & decorations, peach marbled boards, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, minor rubbing to the edges with very good joints. Marbled end papers, top page edges gilt. Fine engraved portrait of Webster by J. A. Wilcox of Boston, with facsimile signature & tissue guard. Vignette engraving of a young Webster on title page. lxii. (Introductory Essay); 707 clean and unmarked pp. with an Index. Pages a bit dark in contrast to the bright white plates (frontis & title page). Near fine. Slip laid in with provenance, "Memo from R. W. Couper: Given to me by President Eugene Tobin, Hamilton College, on the occasion of my 75th birthday 12/16/97." "One of the nation's greatest orators, Daniel Webster (1782-1852) lent