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Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 272 pages, hole in front free end page with previous owner's signature, Some minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Solid tight copy.

First edition of this biographical chronology of the life of United States Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman; from the library of William Tecumseh Sherman. Small octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, elaborately stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, frontispiece portrait of John Sherman. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his son P. T. Shermanās bookplates to the front pastedown. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. General Sherman's library was inherited by P. T. Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria āMinnieā Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania. An exceptional association. John Sherman was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. Initially a Whig, Sherman was among those anti-slavery activists who formed what became the Republican Party. Serving as Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes, Sherman put forth efforts for financial stability and solvency, overseeing an end to wartime inflationary measures and a return to gold-backed money. He was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act, signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890 and was appointed to Secretary of State in 1897 by President William McKinley.