Fine Books and Manuscripts

Small folio (332 x 206 mm). Facsimile of accounts throughout, 3pp. facsimile documents and plans and 1p. letterpress "Extract from Marshall's Life of Washington, Vol.I. 1758." at end. (Dampstain to lower gutter corner, some light browning or stains.) Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, letterpress label to upper cover, stab-sewn (lacking top sewing thread, some rubbing or light wear). The first letterpress leaf is signed by Chief Clerk in the Registrar's office Mich. Nourse, and notes: "General Washingtons account of expenses during the Revolutionary War, in his own hand writing, is on file in this office:---the annexed is a fac simile copy thereof." The four final pages include a facsimile of a plan submitted to General Forbes by Washington in 1758. 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. RARE: According to online auction records, no copy of this work has ever appeared on the market at auction. Sabin 101546.