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Not marked, leather is worn and torn. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

Not marked, leather is worn and torn.

Not marked, leather is worn and torn.

_____ A collection of eulogies occasioned by the death of George Washington.________Ends with a transcription of his will, detailing the distribution of his personal property. _________Howes3 = W148.2_____Sabin = 101900.2________With page 54 set as "45" and pp 259+ misnumbered._____The second issue, with the 7 page alphabetical list of subscribers at the end. _____ The blank preliminaries have several owners' signatures in antique pen and ink._____ ._____The first is William Steele noting he bought the book in 1802 for six shillings._____Below this is an undated E.E. Steele, who has also apparently signed the front paste down as Eliza E. Steele._____That sheet also has a Eugenia E. (obliterated) signature dated 1879._____The front free endpaper is signed by James Berry. _____ Bound in antique full leather, well worn. _____ LACKS THE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT._____ ._____THE FRONT HINGE HAS BEEN REINFORCED. _____

Small folio. Title-page, facsimile of accounts throughout, lithographed by Boell & Michelin. Original half black leather, brown cloth, front cover gilt-lettered and with gilt portrait of Washington at center. Covering the period from June 1775 to June 1783, these records detail Washington's day-to-day expenditures in his official capacity as Commander-in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies. According to Sabin, "As many copies have been rebound it is difficult to be certain how many of the variations in preliminary and final leaves represent varying issues." A fine copy in a contemporary binding. See Sabin 101546. Some wear to extremities of binding, occasional light spotting, early pencil signature trials on front flyleaves