[AMERICANA] AUTOGRAPH BOOK. POLITICAL FIGURES OF THE GILDED AGE. 1892

1882. Fine binding. Finely bound autograph books containing nearly 300 signatures of politicians from the year 1882, the early period of the Gilded Age.~~Among these signatures are:~ Benjamin Harrison (President in 1889)~Two cabinet members:~ Frederick Frelinghuysen (Sec. of State); Samuel Kirkwood (Interior)~Eight members of the Supreme Court:~ Morroson R. Waite (Chief Justice) Joseph P. Bradley; Stephen J. Field;Horace Gray; John M. Harlan; Stanley Matthews; Samuel A. Miller; William B. Woods~Nine senators, including~ William B. Allison who was to become one of the powerful “Big Four” in the 1890s; along with David Davis; George Hoar, James Ingalls; George H. Pendleton; Matthew W. Ransom; Leland Stanford; Zebulon Vance; and David Voorhees~Seven members of the House of Representative, including~ Joesph Warren Keifer (Speaker); Thomas B. Reed (later Speaker); Samuel “Sunset” Cox; Joseph Jorgensen; Van H. Manning; John Randolph Tucker (grandson of St. George Tucker); George D. Wise (nephew of Governor Henry A. Wise).~~A panoply of major figures of our nation’s Gilded Age, in a lovely binding of burgundy crushed morocco with raised bands and rules and titling in gilt; housed in a black cloth slipcase. From the library of Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher.~~. Fine binding.