Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole and Jasper Francis Cropsey. A life of Cooper drawn from the family papers - Cooperstown, the navy, the thirty novels and the libel suits he fought against the newspapers and mostly won. Phillips had access the earlier biographers did not. This edition adds a gallery of 59 plates, among them paintings by Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand and George Caleb Bingham, ranging in date from 1713 to 1892.