Heath Willliam (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition of 500 copies, this is number 196. "New Edition" from 1901, originally published in 1798. Blue cloth boards with paper label affixed to spine. Slight rubbing to edges with cloth starting to fray at ends of spine; minor bumping to corners; mild scratching and soiling. Front hinge is cracked, but binding remains tight. Interior is clean. Text block has a gilt top stain. Includes a few black-and-white portraits on plates. Also features "The Accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill by Generals Dearborn, Lee and Wilkinson" as well as an index and errata/addenda page. William Heath (1737-1814) was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. This memoir details the army's daily operations and offers insights on some of the war major's personalities such as George Washington and John Burgoyne. Howes H-381.

The first American edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm). pp. [xvi],256. With a 16 mounted coloured plates, 25 full page & 100 smaller line illustrations. This edition using the sheets from the first UK edition with a cancel title page for Henry Holt, of which 500 printed. Publisher's green cloth with coloured onlay. A very bright copy with some minor foxing confined mostly to the fore-edge. With the publisher's dustwrapper, with a small hole to front, mark to spine & some repairs to inside. Vg. [Beare 69; Horne 375; Felmingham 174; Osterwalder 907].