Stevens Benjamin Franklin Introduction Hale (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering and design stamped on spine. The covers are a bit worn, with slight loss of cloth at corners and bottom edge and a bit of scuffing and wear. Top edge gilt, untrimmed fore edges. The spine is slightly cocked. Brown paste-downs and free endpapers. Sewn textblock, with a split after the endpapers and first leaf. The text is still tight with no loose pages. Previous owner's name is written, in ink, on second end paper. Considerable foxing to the end papers with slight foxing and staining to some of the pages in the text. Despite the stated flaws, this is a nice copy of a hard to find original edition. ; Seventeen page introduction by Edward Hale, giving a brief history of Howe's command of the British Army during the siege of Boston. The book consists of the précis of correspondance with General Howe taken from from vol. 290 America and West India series of manuscripts in Her Majesty's Public record office and covers the period of time from Howe's attack on Bunker and Breed's Hills, the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776 and his retreat to Halifax. Scarce original edition ; no illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix, 357 p. pages.