Binding is intact but worn. Pages show heavy foxing and toning, particularly to front matter. Engraving of Pinkney is present and legible.

Offered here is an original 1826 edition of Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Speeches of William Pinkney, authored by Henry Wheaton and published by Carey & Lea (Philadelphia). This scarce biography covers the legal and political career of William Pinkney — one of early America’s foremost lawyers and diplomats.

📖 Features:

• printed 1826

• Original full leather binding with visible wear

• Engraved frontispiece portrait of Pinkney (with heavy foxing present)

• Published by Carey & Lea, a premier 19th-century American press

• Includes orations, speeches, and letters from Pinkney's career