ELLIS, Sights And Secrets Of The National Capital, 1869, Publisher Cloth, Frontispiece, Washington D.C.

John B. Ellis. The Sights and Secrets of the National Capital: A Work Descriptive of Washington City in All Its Various Phases. New York: United States Publishing Company, 1869. Octavo. Green publisher’s cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt architectural vignette of the United States Capitol on the front board. Wood-engraved frontispiece plate showing Washington City viewed from the Capitol.

Sound used copy; spine head chipped with cloth loss; rubbing to spine ends, joints, and corners; rear inner hinge split exposing mull; front inner hinge cracked with exposed sewing threads; scattered light foxing to preliminary leaves.