Paperback. Like New. This book (originally published in 1848 by eminent 19th -century historian, Benson J. Lossing) provides a brief biography of each signer of the Declaration. Accompanied by fifty engravings, thses biographies shed light on what Lossing terms, "the chief events in the lives of the men who stood sponsers at the baptism in blood of our infant republic." Through this book ---long used in American schools ---we too, can discover the private and public virtues of those venerated Americans who helped create the most stable and enviable nation in the world.