3 volumes, royal 8vo. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened in gum arabic; hand-colored lithographed dedication leaf. (Small closed tear at gutter margin of frontispiece in vol.3.) Publisher's original deluxe gilt-decorated red morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, others gilt, all edges gilt (some rubbing to extremities, spines a bit darkened).

FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. As Superintendent of Indian Affairs, McKenney commissioned Charles Bird King to produce portraits of Native American leaders. The folio edition was published 1836-1844 with the following octavo edition containing an additional plate of Red Bird (vol. II, frontispiece) and expanded biographies, along with the renowned portraits of Pocahontas and Black Hawk. Howes M-129.