FORD, Worthington Chauncey. [George Washington].
George Washington.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1900.
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Memorial Edition of Worthington Chauncey Ford's George Washington
Memorial edition of this biography of Washington from the turn of the 20th century. Quarto, two parts in four volumes, bound in full red morocco with gilt titles and tooling in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, floral tooling and a vignette of an American eagle stamped in gilt to the front panels, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon bound in, frontispiece color portraits of George and Martha Washington, and illustrated with eighteen plates of other influential founders and of Washington's family. One of 1250 numbered copies, this is number 24. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
George Washington (1900) is a two-volume biographical study by Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858–1941), one of the most distinguished documentary historians and editors of early American materials working at the turn of the twentieth century. Ford edited the first fifteen volumes of the Journals of the Continental Congress and the fourteen-volume Writings of George Washington (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889–1893), and served as editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society until his retirement in 1929 — a career of editorial scholarship that gave him an unmatched command of the primary sources underlying his biographical work. The biography traces Washington's decision to choose war against a powerful enemy rather than comfort and servitude, follows the challenge of forging a Continental Army from very little, and carries the narrative through the presidency and Washington's efforts to pacify the quarrels between Jefferson and Hamilton, rendering a life already familiar in its broad outlines with the documentary authority of a scholar who had spent years immersed in the manuscript record.
George Washington.
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