Author’s revised edition. 3 vols. 2 large folding maps, occasional illustrations. 8vo. Original decorated red cloth. Foxing to fore-edges. Bookplate of Lord Archibald Campbell to upper pastedown. Second and third volumes uncut. 437; 493; 492pp. London, Bickers & Son, 1877.
With these books, Irving succeeded in writing a popular, but also well researched, account of Columbus’s life.