Chicago IL: The Lewis Publishing Co.. Very Good-; Rubbed at all edges, corners, spine ends. Wear and chipping to spine tails, wear to spine heads, Vol I lower third of front joint split but the rest is sound. Creases to rear endpaper. Vol II lower third of front and back joints split, rest of front joint starting, but all held quite firmly by heavy hinges which are perfect. Front endpaper has an old repair to a hole, with textured paper taped on both sides of the leaf. 1910. Hardcover. Two volumes of the popular history of Indianapolis from foundation through 1910. Author was the Secretary of the Indiana Historical Society and delivers great detail about the movers and shakers of the times, the status of business and industry, and what we now call the public history of the city and what it now Marion County. Tissue-covered plates of the major personalities. Three-quarter leather with heavy, pebbled texture. Boards in leather with finer, grained texture. Text block has gilt head edge, marbled fore and tail edges. Title in gilt to spine. Vol I contains the Table of contents immediately followed by the Index. Numbered consecutively; Vol I ends at page 641, Vol II ends at page 1257. With the ownership blind stamp of Jack McKim Vorhies, noted numismatic author of books about obsolete bank notes. Both volumes very clean: externally overall about VG-, internally overall closer to NF. Tremendously detailed compared to other Indianapolis histories. Significant and scarce.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .