Record of the Class of 1845 of Yale College, Containing Obituaries of Deceased, and Biographical Sketches of Surviving Members. Prepared by The Secretary at the Request of the Class

First edition. Large octavo. 219pp. Profusely illustrated with sixty-one albumen print photographs, and one engraved portrait of Yale University members of the Class of 1845. Blue cloth stamped in gold and decorated in black. Ex-library copy of New Jersey Historical Society with their early bookplate on front pastedown, early paper shelf label on lower spine, and with their single embossed stamp on title page, de-accessioned, with "withdrawn" stamp on copyright page. Front and rear hinges started as usual, due to delicate floral endpapers, but the binding is tight, else a near fine, bright copy, with the text and albumen photographs fresh and clean. Prints detailed biographical sketches of surviving class members, along with obituaries of the deceased. Tipped into the book, at Yale Class member Oliver Crane's biographical entry [p.49], is an Autograph Letter Signed by editor Oliver Crane, three octavo pages densely written form Morristown, N.J., Feb. 4, 1882, to William A. Whitehead, Secretary of New Jersey Historical Society, with fine content about the publication of this volume. The letter begins: "I herewith mail you. a bound copy of the very limited edition of the Records of Yale College Class of 1845, with photographs. The work has cost an amount of labor hardly apparent. The photographs, as you will see at a glance, vary in ages. many had to be taken from originals many years ago, when photography was in its infancy. from daguerreotypes. But I am assured by Prof. Thomas. A. Thatcher, the oldest professor now in Yale College, that it 'surpassed all its predecessors.' [signed] Rev. Oliver Crane D.D." Crane has made a five-word pencil notation in the margin of his biographical information on page 49. …