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WASHINGTON, George. The Writings of George Washington. Ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889.
14 volumes, 8o (220 x 150mm). Engraved frontispieces. LIMITED EDITION, Number 435 of 750 copies. Black morocco gilt, covers with gilt-tooled floral corner-pieces, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, top edges gilt, others uncut, pastedowns with dark red central panel, white watered silk end-pages. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with the addition of some 40 engraved and lithographic portraits and views. Provenance: William P. Olds (bookplate laid in each volume).
[With:] WASHINGTON. Partly printed document signed ("Go: Washington") as Comander-in-Chief, Continental Army, accomplished in manuscript, countersigned by Johnathan Trumbull Jr., Headquarters [New Windsor, N.Y.], 8 June 1783. 2 pp., small folio (13¾ x 8½ in). Scattered soiling, slight tears at folds. Washington signs a discharge certificate for James Adams, a drummer in a New York regiment, having served five years, and having earned a Badge of Merit. Neatly folded into vol. 1. (14)
14 volumes, 8o (220 x 150mm). Engraved frontispieces. LIMITED EDITION, Number 435 of 750 copies. Black morocco gilt, covers with gilt-tooled floral corner-pieces, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, top edges gilt, others uncut, pastedowns with dark red central panel, white watered silk end-pages. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with the addition of some 40 engraved and lithographic portraits and views. Provenance: William P. Olds (bookplate laid in each volume).
[With:] WASHINGTON. Partly printed document signed ("Go: Washington") as Comander-in-Chief, Continental Army, accomplished in manuscript, countersigned by Johnathan Trumbull Jr., Headquarters [New Windsor, N.Y.], 8 June 1783. 2 pp., small folio (13¾ x 8½ in). Scattered soiling, slight tears at folds. Washington signs a discharge certificate for James Adams, a drummer in a New York regiment, having served five years, and having earned a Badge of Merit. Neatly folded into vol. 1. (14)