pp. xxxi,[9],519. full calf with red leather label intact, sm.8vo head of spine & corners worn with loss, spine scuffed, edges & joints rubbed with 3-1/2" crack in front joint apparently the result of a slightly warped front board, early library bookplate, endpapers, prelims, frontisp & title page browned, scattered light foxing & staining throughout, 1" tear in lower margin of frontisp & 1" tear in gutter margin of title page, still a good usable copy. Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a lawyer, a New England Federalist, & U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1789-97, who "wrote extensively on current affairs, and had a wide reputation both as a writer and an orator". (DAB). Cohen 2212; Sabin 1303. Illustrated by portrait frontisp. 1st edition.

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Title: Works of Fisher Ames. Compiled by a number of his friends. To which are prefixed, Notices of His Life and Character
Publisher: Boston Ptd & Publ by T.B. Wait & Co 1809.
Publication Date: 1809
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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