Historic and Picturesque Savannah

Boston: Boston Photogravure Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. xviii, [1], 268 pages. Folding frontispiece document. Illustrated by Georgia Weymouth. Light green cloth hardcover. Gilt illustration, title and borders on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Gilt top edge. Cloth binding is worn and lightly soiled. Edge wear head and base of the spine and corners. Front hinge cracked. Light toning to the contents. A fair copy.

Previous owner name label on front paste down of former Georgia historian Charles Edgeworth Jones, Augusta. Charles Edgeworth Jones was the son of Charles C. Jones. Also on the front paste down is a 3 page letter on the front paste down addressed to "Mr. Jones" and signed by the author (ALS). The author also inscribed this copy on the right front flyleaf "To Mr. C. C. Jones Jr. With the Compliments of Miss Wilson and Miss Weymouth. October Eighteenth 1889."

A few misc. scattered pieces of ephemera are laid inside book. Page 162 has a note in the hand of C. C. Jones? that reads "Major John Jones - Killed at the Siege of Savannah 9th of October 1779. He was at the time aid. de. Camp to Genl Lachlan McIntosh."

Inside this book are tipped in paper items including an illustration of John Wesley before page 13 with a note written at bottom; "Tomo Chachi Mico" illustration before page 17; one page letter tipped in between pages 158-159 appears to be addressed to Henry Williamsby and signed by W B Hodgson; and a poem titled "Savannah" dated 1868 by R. J. Larcombe located between pages 216 and 217. Some old Georgia history newspaper clippings laid in between pages 66, 67. Charles C. Jones Jr. was a Confederate officer during the Civil War and author of several books and articles pertaining to the south including a pamphlet on "Hodgson Hall". His son was Charles Edgeworth Jones of Augusta.

From the Georgia Historical Society (regarding W. B. Hodgson):

"The distinguished scholar-diplomat William Brown Hodgson (1801-1871) became a core member of the cultural and intellectual life of Savannah following his marriage in 1842 to Margaret Telfair, the youngest daughter of Georgia governor Edward Telfair. Born on September 1, 1801, in Georgetown, D.C., Hodgson was left fatherless as a young boy. During his childhood, he developed an unusual talent for foreign languages and ultimately would master thirteen of them, including Hebrew and Sanskrit. Although he never attended college, Princeton University would later award him an honorary degree in 1824. Hodgson spent many years of his life in his country’s service in the East and is distinguished for his studies of oriental life and language and his collection of rare books and manuscripts.