Very good.See details regarding condition Very good.Disbound.Congregational Library handstamp on blank front page and in bottom margin of title page.Tiny chip out of bottom corner tip of front blank page.From first paragraph: A few years after the close of the War of the Rebellion,the members of the Committee of Congress on the Capitol,considering that it was desirable to place in the Capitol some object of art as a memorial of the stability of the nation,selected the designs for three vases of heroic size,made by Horatio Stone...The Federal vases consist of one pair,and a third vase of much larger size... girt with relievos,forming a processional...