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Four volumes: [2], ii, [3]-448 pp, plus six portrait plates [including frontis plate of George III]; [2], 449 pp, plus two folding maps and four portrait plates; [2], 445 pp, plus three portrait plates and one folding map; [2], 416, [59 - Index], [1blank], [v]-xiv [List of Subscribers] pp, plus three folding maps, one full-page map, and eleven portrait plates; all as issued. Maps colored in outline, light ghosting from some maps. Bound in modern calf. Very Good plus. This offering is the first state of the first edition, with the double rule preceding the first text page of each volume. A list of subscribers and directions to the binder follow the Index in the fourth volume. It is "one of the most detailed accounts written by any Englishman. . . The work is frankly a compilation, but shows much effort to obtain the exact facts, is fairly judicial, and shows marked impartiality of temper in dealing with the motives of the American colonists" [Larned]. Andrews explains, "It is not surprising that, feeling their own worth and consequence, [the American colonies] should cherish the most partial sentiments in their own behalf, and look upon themselves with that esteem and respect, which consciousness of a great worth naturally ingenders, and that they should at the same time, betray impatience and discontent at whatever might seem to place them in an humble and inferior light." "Includes portraits of Gens. Washington, Greene, Clinton, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, Lafayette, De Grasse, Count D'Estaing, and Capt. Asgill" [Sabin]. The maps show the American colonies to the Mississippi River, the West Indies, "the German Ocean or the North Sea," the East Indies and elsewhere. FIRST EDITION. Howes A259 aa. Larned 1225. JCB Library 3014. Sabin 1501. Gephart 5690.
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