Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hundred Great and Memorable Events of Perpetual Interest In The History of Our Country, Political, Military, Mechanical, Social, Scientific and Commercial: Embracing also Delineations of all the Great Historic Characters Celebrated in the Annals of the Republic; Men of Heroism, Statesmanship, Genius, Oratory, Adventure and Philanthropy C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass. Hugh Heron, Chicago, Ill. 1877 About this Item: 33-1007 p., illustrations. Bound in contemporary quarter leather. Brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering and tooling to spine. Clean, unmarked page with tanning. Thick volume published soon after the American Centennial in 1876 in celebration of the 100 most noteworthy events of the country's first century. Generously illustrated with engravings, with a color chromo-lithographed title plate preceding the frontis. Three quarter dark brown leather over brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, 1007 pages. Covers rubbed, chipping to the spine and exremities, bumped corners, good hinges, text block sound, pages a bit age-yellowed but clean. End Papers are intact, marbled. Preliminaries – Frontispiece: Engraving of Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Preface; Table of Contents; Topical or Classified List; List of Illustrations. Page Structure is sound with no missing pages. Name on pg.3 in ink and gilt on cover. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Good+ condition. Tight binding. Gilt text block bright. Corners bumped. Gilt on spine bright with some marks. See pictures as they are part of the description. Heavy book requires extra charge for shipping.