Hillard Rev E B (2 results)

1st Ed. Sm. square 8vo. 64pp. 6 Albumen carte-de-visite prints measuring 3 ¼ x 2 ¼ in. with a decorative border and headed an eagle inscribed in gold, 6 colour lithographic plates. From the Library of Jerrold Northop Moore, some browning, plates and mounts with some foxing, 2 plates and 2 photos. lacking tissue guards, publishers half morocco with gilt lettered cloth boards, some fading, spine cracked with some loss particularly to head, upper joint cracked. An extraordinary compilation of biographies written by Rev. E. B. Hillard (Elias Brewster) documenting six of some of the last living veterans of the American Revolution who were alive in 1864, Samuel Downing, Daniel Waldo, Lemuel Cook, Alexander Milliner, William Hutchings and Adam Link, James Barham. The book contains six albumen prints, one for each veteran documented excluding James Barham whom they were unable to locate. When they sat before an unknown photographer they ranged in age from 101 to 105.Sabin 31871. Truthful Lens 86 'The photographs were made uniformly under makeshift circumstances as would have been required if the photographs were made in situ while Hillard visited each for a personal interview'.Apparently some copies issued with a facsimile letter from Edward Everett, not present in our copy. US$3713.

First edition. First edition. Illustrated with 6 mounted photographic portraits, and 7 color-printed illustrations of the homes, lithographed by Bingham & Dodd of Hartford. 64 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This book is remarkable for its extraordinarily early mounted photographs of actual veterans of the American Revolution. Hillard produced it during the Civil War to inspire patriotic sentiments by providing verbal and visual portraits of the experienced old veterans. The persons photographed are Samuel Downing, Daniel Waldo, Lemuel Cook, Alexander Millener, William Hutchings, and Adam Link. The colored lithographs show their homes. An additional chapter on James Barham is unillustrated as he could not be found, although there was no record of his death. Hillard did not include the final surviving Revolutionary War veteran, Daniel Frederick Bakeman (1759-1869), because as of 1864 he had never applied for a pension. He was finally enrolled after Congress passed a special act on February 14, 1867, granting Bakeman a pension of $500 per year. This copy is without the facsimile letter from Edward Everett which is sometimes found with the book. "The photographs were made uniformly under makeshift circumstances as would have been required if the photographs were made in situ while Hillard visited each for a personal interview" (Truthful Lens). Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred, no. 100; Sabin 31817; Howes H490; Goldschmidt, The Truthful Lens, p. 86; Bennett, p. 56; McGrath, pp. 114-115, 132-33 Publisher's half morocco and cloth boards, rebacked with a portion of the original spine laid down, endpapers renewed Illustrated with 6 mounted photographic portraits, and 7 color-printed illustrations of the homes, lithographed by Bingham & Dodd of Hartford. 64 pp. 1 vols. 12mo.