Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co, 1836. Ninth Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1836 ninth edition. Stains to edges of last forty pages with discoloration to spine and corners of boards, lightly foxed throughout, ink note on front endpaper. ix, [10]-306, [4] pp. A biography of the famous activist of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of him opposite the title page, which features an engraved portrait of the author. "Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.