Description: The Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorale to Himself, and Exemplary to his Young Countrymen, by M. L. Weems. Sixth edition, greatly improved. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by R. Cochran, 1808. Contemporary quarter leather over paper-covered boards. 228 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Washington. Housed in a later custom clamshell box. Boards heavily worn and pitted, although some hints of marbled paper remain. Spine leather cracked and worn. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown and front free endpaper. The front free endpaper, frontispiece, title page, and pp. 11/12 all have some tears or chips and have had professional paper conservation done (with something like Japanese repair tissue). Dampstaining visible to varying degrees throughout, with some foxing. Rear endpaper with some old pencil arithmetic. Shipped free in the US via Media Mail, at cost outside the US via eBay's International Shipping. Please contact me with questions.
Price: 850 USD
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Language: English
Special Attributes: Sixth Edition
Signed: No
Author: M.L. Weems
Publisher: R. Cochran
Topic: Biography
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1808
Original/Facsimile: Original
