Signed book: Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on the Operations of the Internal Revenue System for the Year Ending June 30, 1866. First edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. Hardcover bound in quarter morocco with marbled boards, 6 x 9, 349 pages. Signed on a free end page in ink, "U. S. Grant, General, March 14th, 1867." Autographic condition: very good to fine, with scattered staining to the signed page, and haloing to the ink in Grant's handwriting; his autograph is large and bold. Book condition: VG-/None, with minor foxing to the textblock, edgewear and scuffing to spine, and rubbing to boards and corners.
In the report, the commissioner comments on the proceeds of the Internal Revenue Office for the previous year, stating that 'their aggregate amount is considerably in excess of the estimate at the date of my last report.' He observes that this is a direct result of the successes of the postbellum economy: 'This excess came largely from the manufactures stimulated by the opening of southern markets, and from cotton, of which there was a greater supply than was anticipated.'
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