Buffalo: Thomas & Lathrops/Auburn and New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First edition. Presentation copy, with a two-page autograph letter, signed by Millard Fillmore, regarding this volume, dated April 22, 1864, tipped-in on verso of frontispiece. 8vo. 215 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Fillmore by J.C. Buttre. Publisher's brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, light wear along extremities, spine ends moderately worn, boards unevenly faded; all edges trimmed; inscribed by original owner, Connecticut lawyer John Turner Waite, on front free endpaper, “John Turner Waite / Presented to me by / …Millard Fillmore / April 25, 1864”; scattered light spotting to text.

Scarce presentation copy of this biography of 13th President Millard Fillmore, published three years after his presidency. This copy with an autograph letter from Fillmore to Connecticut lawyer and politician John Turner Waite (1811-99). Waite wrote Fillmore requesting an engraved image of the former president, and in Fillmore's reply, tipped-in to this copy, he obliges him, while also sending him this very book. Waite was educated at Trinity College, in Hartford, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He practiced law in Norwich, and served as the state's attorney for New London, from 1842-44 and 1846-54. He later served in the Connecticut Senate from 1865-66, the latter year as President Pro Tempore, and then in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1867, 1871, and 1873, the latter year as Speaker. In 1876 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Connecticut as a Republican, and served until his retirement, in 1887.

The uncredited author, Ivory Chamberlain, was the editor of the New York Herald, and an influential writer the in Democratic Party.