THE LITERATURE OF THE REBELLION. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RELATING TO THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ON SUBJECTS GROWING OUT OF THAT EVENT, TOGETHER WITH WORKS ON AMERICAN SLAVERY, AND ESSAYS FROM REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES ON THE SAME SUBJECTS

Boston and Providence, 1866.. 477pp. Later blue buckram, spine gilt, original printed wrapper title mounted on front board. Cloth lightly rubbed and shelf worn, binder's ticket on front pastedown. Light pencil marks beside some entries. A very good copy. One of 250 "royal octavo" copies of one of the earliest major bibliographies of the Civil War, compiled by the notable bibliographer and boundary surveyor, John Russell Bartlett. The over 6000 entries in this work are terse, but include books, pamphlets, congressional reports, British government reports, essays, magazine articles, and nearly any other type of printed document related not only to the Civil War, but to other important events leading up to it, including Harper's Ferry, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Missouri Compromise, and slavery as a whole.

John Russell Bartlett was a talented artist, observer, and reporter as well as bibliographer and bibliophile. As a member of the Mexican Boundary Commission, he made significant contributions to the United States' knowledge of the topography and geography of the Southwest, and he later became the first librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. A neat and sturdy copy of this early and important reference work, rarely encountered in good condition. BESTERMAN 6304. NEVINS II, p.5. SABIN 3743. (Inventory #: WRCAM57813)