MARSHALL, John [George Washington].
The Life of George Washington.
JOHN MARSHALL’S LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Fredericksburg: The Citizens' Guild of Washington's Boyhood Home, 1926.
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The Citizens' Guild of Washington's Boyhood Home edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington. Octavo, five volumes. Finely bound in the publisher's tan buckram, black and burgundy labels stamped in gilt with tooling to the spine in black and gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits of Washington in every volume, illustrated with twenty-seven additional black and white plates. In near fine condition. A bright collection.
John Marshall's description of the life, character, and achievements of the "Father of America" is unparalleled by any other author. As a contemporary and peer of Washington, he has a unique and intimate perspective on the man that no other historian can claim. If you want a first hand description of this history changing figure, than John Marshall's work is essential. The work “is political history as well as biography… the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of the full founding of the United States— of the founding of an independent people as well as of its government… There is no other concentrated history of the essentials by such an authority on American institutions” (Robert K. Faulkner).
The Life of George Washington.
$600.00
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