Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865
New York: Printed for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, 1918-1919. Limited edition. Three portraits. Hardcovers. Octavos. xvi, 440 and xx, 492 pages. Bound in gray paper over boards with vellum spines and fore corner tips. Gilt-stamped spines and upper boards, top edges gilt. Hinges sound, some minor discoloration of spines. Fine condition overall.
A very valuable source on the Union navy's strategic and administrative aspects of the Civil War. Fox's most notable correspondents are Samuel F. Du Pont, David G. Farragut, David Dixon Porter, Louis M. Goldsborough, Charles Henry Davis, and Samuel Phillips Lee. Because these letters were private correspondence between Fox and naval personnel, with strict secrecy in mind, they are completely candid.
Though the Preface in Volume I mentions a third volume, there were only two volumes published. The edition was limited to 1200 sets. The volumes within sets have different numbers within the edition because Volume I was published in 1918 and Volume II in 1919. In the present set Volume I is #961 and Volume II is #1070 of the edition of 1200.
Ref. EICHER 388; NEVINS Vol. I, p.224.
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