The Collection of Washington Relics. [ANNOTATED COPY] The Final Sale of the Relics of General Washington owned by Lawrence Washington, Bushrod C. Washington, Thos. B. Washington. and J.R.C. Lewis. Embracing the most important collection ever brought together, of Letters, Deeds, Leases, Legal Documents, Receipts, Bills, Account Books and Memorabilia belonging to and written by General Washington annotated]

A unique copy of a scarce title with buyers identified, prices realized and lengthy annotations in a fine pencil by an anonymous someone with an intimate knowledge of Mt Vernon and the histories of various pieces offered. This exemplified by their comment on lot 294 (Morse's Portrait of Henry Clay): "this facsimile does injustice to this picture which was truly a splendid one. The background was a yellow sunset flush. The story of the $10,000 offer we do not credit" Last line of pencil notes trimmed at p.33. Moisture mark to front lower fore edge pages and lower part of last eight pages. iv, 152 pages; describing 953 lots together with many illustrations, some of which are folding.