Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography
By: edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1888
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Dictionaries; Biography
Other titles: Cyclopædia of American biography
Notes: Includes index.

Bound in marbled boards, with leather spine and corners, gilt-stamped lettering on tooled spine, and marbled edges and endpapers.

Stamped on verso of front flyleaf: Private library of E. J. Shives.

Plates accompanied by guard sheets; frontispieces; includes engraving of Lincoln, with facsimile signature, by A. B. Hall on frontispiece in v. 3.

Portraits with facsimile signatures throughout.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Aaron-Crandall; title: v. 2. Crane-Grimshaw; title: v. 3. Grinnell-Lockwood; title: v. 4. Lodge-Pickens; title: v. 5. Pickering-Sumter; title: v. 6. Sunderland-Zurita, with supplement and analytical index.