William Jennings Bryan (1860 1925 American lawyer and politician, Secretary of State and the chief prosecutor who dueled with Clarence Darrow in the famous scopes monkey trial A leather bound copy of his collected speeches Speeches of Congressman Bryan ca. 1894 privately printed This edition has mother in gold letters embossed on the cover and has a very warm two page inscription by Bryan to his mother on both sides of the front fly leaf. dated Washington Aug 6, 1894 it reads in part I send you ingrateful remembrance this the first bound copy of my speeches in the House of Representatives indebted to the unselfish devotion and wise counsel of yourself and my revered father your constant care and his noble example has often enabled me to withstand temptation. Signed william Jennings Bryan a rare printing and this is the first copy One small tape stain at margin affects two words otherwise very good