(Clay, Henry) — Calvin Colton | Extra-illustrated, autograph letters signed from Clay and others

(Clay, Henry) — Calvin Colton

The Life and Times of Henry Clay. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1846

2 volumes (233 x 143 mm). Title to each volume, 8 autograph letters from Clay, 10 letters from others, and numerous portraits including engravings and CDV-sized photographs of Clay and Andrew Jackson affixed to thick inserted sheets along the left edge; some offsetting and foxing, letters creased and minor repairs. Early three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards bound by Blackwell, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second and third gilt-lettered, others with gilt rules, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; joints restored, spines sunned, extremities rubbed, old auction listing affixed to rear endleaf of vol. I.  

Second edition, extra-illustrated, with eight autograph letters signed from Clay on legal and business matters, with a two-page signed pay chart in his hand, most written from Kentucky between 1799-1816, the recipient mostly William Taylor, bound in. 

PROVENANCE

J. Ackerman Coles (ownership inscriptions to titles) — Anderson Galleries, 9 December 1903, lot 82 — Rhinelander Stewart Family (Doyle, 25 April 2018, lot 7)