HENSELANA Collected Papers & Speeches by and about W. U. Hensel and Lancaster County, PA: Bound Into a Single Volume de Hensel, William Uhler (1851-1915) - 1910

Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Historical Society, Lehigh Univ, Conastoga Traction Company, Etc.. Very Good. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick, large octavo bound in 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards with gilt decoration & lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Contains an author signed letter & an initaled inscription. Works by Hensel: Major John Andre as a Prisoner of War at Lancaster, PA 1775-76 [1904: 34pp]; Robert E. Lee as a Citizen, Soldier and Statesman, [1908: 44pp]; Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of Rebellion [1908, 41pp]; Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer [1906: 35pp]; The Shippen House [1910: 23pp]; The "Scotch-Irish" of Lancaster County [1905, 24pp]; Wealth and Worth [1907: 44pp]; Twenty-five Years of the "CLIO" (Cliosophic Society of Lancaster) [1904: 104pp]; Making Roads and Making Road Laws [1904: 24pp]; Lancaster County-The Home of the Conestoga Traction Company [27pp]; Seeing Lancaster County from A Trolley Window [1910: 80pp] + many additional works, poetry, etc. Illustrated with many photographs, fold-out letters & bound in rear a photo album with photos pasted-on heavy cardboard. W. U. Hensel was a Pennsylvania newspaper editor, lawyer, author, and state Attorney General. He was very active in politics, and a noted political speaker. In later years he devoted himself to local history & helped found the Lancaster Historical Society. Pennsylvania. ; Photographs, Engravings; Thick Large 8vo .