LEGACIES OF WASHINGTON: BEING A COLLECTION OF THE MOST APPROVED WRITINGS OF THE LATE GENERAL WASHINGTON, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THIS ILLUSTRIOUS PATRIOT...

Trenton, 1800. 283pp. plus frontispiece. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt leather label. Front hinge tender, light wear to edges, some damstaining and chipping to upper right corner of front board. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Moderate tanning and foxing. Good plus. A printing of George Washington's most famous speeches and a biographical sketch. This work also contains a copy of his will and the eulogies by Thomas Paine and Henry "Light Horse" Lee. One of a number of laudatory works occasioned by Washington's death. ESTC W20632. EVANS 38995. HOWES W149. SABIN 101711. (Inventory #: WRCAM53833)