Historical Lights: Six Thousand Quotations from Standard Histories and Biographies, with Twenty Thousand Cross-References, and a General Index, Also an Index of Personal Names.
By Charles E. Little, Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1886.

Quarter black leather with four raised bands to spine, marbled edges, floral endpapers & cloth pebbled boards. Solid binding with clean pages, heavy cover wear at right spine edge and a little at spine leather otherwise good. And a 1-1/2 gutter edge paper tear at one of the front endpapers. About 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 x 2-1/2 with 958 pp. plus ads. Scarce reference Americana book!