Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, George Inness and Edward Mitchell Bannister. A Virginia lawyer of no family climbs into Jefferson's circle and then into Burr's conspiracy, and the ambition costs him everything he married for. Mary Johnston wrote the early republic from the state papers and gave Lewis Rand the shape of a tragedy rather than a career. This edition adds fifty-nine plates of painting, among them works by Albert Bierstadt, George Inness and Martin Johnson Heade, with one restored and coloured illustration in the text.

Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was an American novelist born in Buchanan, Virginia. Her historical romance To Have and to Hold was the best-selling American novel of 1900, and she campaigned for women's suffrage in Virginia. Her works include To Have and to Hold, Lewis Rand, The Long Roll, and Cease Firing.