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Author: Marshall, John
Title: The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington... To which is Prefixed an Introduction Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:C.P. Wayne
Date Published: 1804-1807
Description: 5 volumes + atlas. xxii, 488, 45; [iii]-viii, 560, 72; viii, 580, 28; [iii]-viii, 626, [2], 16; vii, [1], 779, [1], 36 pp. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait. Atlas with 10 copper-engraved maps, 8 double-page, 2 folding, plus 22 printed pages of subscribers' names. Text volumes are (8vo) 21x12.5 cm (8¼x5"), modern sheep, period morocco title labels, modern morocco volume number labels; atlas is (4to) 28.4x21.5 cm (11x8½"), modern half morocco & marbled boards. First Edition.First edition of Marshall's seminal biography of George Washington, with the rare and significant atlas volume. Sabin notes that later histories did not contain the Colonial History. He also quotes Jared Sparks as stating that "after the able, accurate and comprehensive work of Chief Justice Marshall, it would be presumptuous to attempt a historical biography of Washington." The maps in the atlas relate to military operations in the Revolutionary War, and include the Boston area, New York Island, northern New Jersey, New Hampshire, Yorktown, etc. The text volumes bound without the half-titles.

Top of title page of each volume including the atlas clipped (likely to remove former ownership signature) and replaced with paper; frontispiece well foxed; text volumes with occasional staining and foxing including to title pages; atlas with offsetting to the maps and a few repairs; very good, in attractive modern bindings.