Featured in this lot is the First Edition of, "Robert E. Lee The Southerner" by Thomas Nelson Page, 1908, publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York. From the Introductory, "THIS sketch of a great Virginian is not written with the expectation or with even the hope that the writer can add anything to the fame of Lee; but rather in obedience to a feeling that as the son of a Confederate soldier, as a Southerner, as an American, he owes something to himself and to his countrymen, which he should endeavor to pay, though it may be but a mite cast into the Treasury of Abundance. The subject is not one to be dealt with in the language of eulogy. To attempt to decorate it with panegyric would but belittle it. What the writer proposes to say will be based upon public records, or on the testimony of those personal witnesses who by character and opportunity for observation would be held to furnish evidence by which the gravest concerns of life would be decided." Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate military general during the American Civil War, but perhaps his greatest contribution to the United States was his effort to reunite the country following the American Civil War. In the opinions of his contemporaries and historians, Lee played a crucial role in restoring peace following the war. Thomas Nelson Page was an American lawyer, politician, and writer. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1913 to 1919 under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. In 1869, he entered Washington College, known now as Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia when Robert E. Lee was was president of the college. In Page's later literary works, Robert E. Lee would come to serve as the model figure of Southern Heroism. This green clothbound stamped gold gilt hardcover is in very nice overall condition, gold gilt front cover lettering is bright and clean, spine gold gilt is intact and somewhat faded, top edge gold gilding. Scuffing noted on cover edges, intact deckled pages exhibit age tanning and minimal foxing, no other obvious marring noted. Measurements are 5.25"W x 7.75"L x 1.25"D approximately.