Francis Parkman. 1892 Francis Parkman's France & England in N. America - INSCRIBED, 1st Ed, Pt. 6. Little, Brown and Company, 1892.

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Description: rance and England in North America. A Series of Historical Narratives. By Francis Parkman, Author of "History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac," and "The Oregon Trail." Part Sixth: A Half Century of Conflict, Volumes I & II, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1892, first editions, 333 pp, 395 pp, part six only, inscribed by author Francis Parkman to Barrett Wendell in Vol. I, publisher's advert of Parkman's set including original prices, 8.25 x 5.5", 8vos. ***Also included with purchase is a letter from Evert Jansen Wendell (1860-1917) to his brother, Barrett Wendell dated May 1916. The letter includes an original photo of Francis Parkman, which Evert Jansen thought his brother, Barrett would enjoy having "to insert in your own copy of your own 'Cotton Mathers' of which he [assumedly Francis Parkman] spoke in terms of such unmeasured praise!" Original envelope also included. In good condition. Cloth boards scuffed at edges & worn at corners. Cloth at heads and tails of spines beginning to chip/fray - exposed binding. Gilt lettering, deco, and ruling chipping in a few small places, but overall bright and clean. Author inscription found on tipped-in paper on Vol. I's front paste-down: Professor Barrett Wendell, with cordial regards of Francis Parkman, 10 May, 1892. Vol. II's front paste-down exhibits a bookplate from Barrett Wendell, whom Parkman inscribed the set to. Wendell bookplate also found on vol. I's front paste-down, under tipped-in inscription. Front gutters are fragile in both volumes, with some exposed binding. Text-blocks are clean, no known marginalia. Very light toning present. Bindings intact - front boards fragile. Please see photos. Francis Parkman Jr. (1823-1893) was an American historian, best known as the author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life" and his monumental seven-volume "France and England in North America." These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a professor of horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic. Barrett Wendell (1855-1921) was an American academic known for a series of textbooks including "English Compositions," studies of Cotton Mather and William Shakespeare, "A Literary History of America," "The France of Today," and "The Traditions of European Literature." Among Wendell's younger brothers were Gordon Wendell, philanthropist and athlete Evert Jansen Wendell, and actor Jacob Wendell. Wendell graduated from Harvard in the class of 1877 with Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who was a later president of Harvard. In 1880, he was appointed Instructor in English at Harvard & he later became an Assistant Professor of English from 1888 to 1898, and a Professor of English from 1898 to 1917, after which he was professor emeritus. This is only Part 6 (in two volumes) of a multi-part history of the European colonization of North America. Complete as Part 6, but incomplete as a set (Missing Parts 1-5).

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