Thomas, R., A.M. The Glory of America; Comprising Memoirs of the Lives and Glorious Exploits of Some of the Distinguished Officers Engaged in the Late War with Great Britain. New York: Ezra Strong, 1835. 8vo, full leather, 574pp. Twelve woodcut plates on six pages between the preface and first chapter. These include the Battle of New Orleans, Landing of President Jackson at Castle Garden, New York, Death of Tecumseh, Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia, Capture of the Macedonian, Victory of York, U.C., Capture of the Peacock by Capt. Lawrence, Capture of the Java, Commodore Macdonough's Victory and Battle of Plattsburgh, Battle of Bridgewater, Major Croghan's Defence at Lower Sandusky, Ohio, and Perry's Victory on Lake Erie. Among the heroes of the War of 1812 profiled: Andrew Jackson Richard Mentor Johnson, Stephen Decatur, David Porter Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Leonard Covington, John Chrystie, William henry Allen John Cushing Aylwin, William Burrows, James Lawrence William Balnbridge, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, Thomas Macdonough, Wm. Carrell, Jacob Brown, John Rogers James Biddle, Winfield Scott, Lewis Warrington, George Croglan, Henry H. Dearborn, Alexander Macomb Oliver Hazard Perry, Jacob Jones, Isaac Hull, Joseph Warren, Richard Montgomery, Daniel Morgan, John Barry John Manly, Baron de Kalb, William Heath Anthony Wayne, Charles Lee Nathaniel Green, Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Truxton, Hugh Mercer. In the preface, the editor states (laments?): "Few, if any, who are not experimentally taught the lesson, have any adequate conception of the difficulties under which an editor labours, in compiling a work consisting of biographical sketches of various individuals, residing, or acting, in different sections of an extensive country, with few of whim he can be personally acquainted....But still biographers must toil, and the public will read; and till writers shall be endued with the power of ubiquity, and the gift of annihilating both time an space, errors will unavoidably occur in their works; the captious will cavil; and the ill natures, who perhaps can hardly pen a sentence of good English, will be furnished with abundant matter on which to vent their harmless venom. "In preparing the following pages for publication, three points have been constantly in view; 1st. To obtain all information relative to the different subjects, which was within reach; to compare and digest which has cost much labour and care. 2ndly. To search for truth; - and, 3dly, To choose the best language in which to convey the information thus obtained. "The materials are principally gathered from the current publication of the day, which are sometimes too loosely written - at others, penned with evident partiality or prejudice, and occasionally so embellished with altiloquence, or garnished with superlatives, as to appear rather as the work of an exuberant imagination, than like a relation of substantial and indisputable facts. Amidst these various difficulties, more than human ken is requisite to guide the inquiring mind to the fount of truth...." Condition: Textblock "broken" between pp 432-433, but all pages present. Several pages between 420 and 432 with tape holding them in. With other tape on hinges of boards. Wear to leather. Museum library markings and stamps on spine and internally.
Thomas, R., A.M. The Glory of America; Comprising Memoirs of the Lives and Glorious Exploits of Some of the Distinguished Officers Engaged in the Late War with Great Britain. New York: Ezra Strong, 1835. 8vo, full leather, 574pp. Twelve woodcut plates on six pages between the preface and first chapter. These include the Battle of New Orleans, Landing of President Jackson at Castle Garden, New York, Death of Tecumseh, Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia, Capture of the Macedonian, Victory of York, U.C., Capture of the Peacock by Capt. Lawrence, Capture of the Java, Commodore Macdonough's Victory and Battle of Plattsburgh, Battle of Bridgewater, Major Croghan's Defence at Lower Sandusky, Ohio, and Perry's Victory on Lake Erie. Among the heroes of the War of 1812 profiled: Andrew Jackson Richard Mentor Johnson, Stephen Decatur, David Porter Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Leonard Covington, John Chrystie, William henry Allen John Cushing Aylwin, William Burrows, James Lawrence William Balnbridge, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, Thomas Macdonough, Wm. Carrell, Jacob Brown, John Rogers James Biddle, Winfield Scott, Lewis Warrington, George Croglan, Henry H. Dearborn, Alexander Macomb Oliver Hazard Perry, Jacob Jones, Isaac Hull, Joseph Warren, Richard Montgomery, Daniel Morgan, John Barry John Manly, Baron de Kalb, William Heath Anthony Wayne, Charles Lee Nathaniel Green, Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Truxton, Hugh Mercer. In the preface, the editor states (laments?): "Few, if any, who are not experimentally taught the lesson, have any adequate conception of the difficulties under which an editor labours, in compiling a work consisting of biographical sketches of various individuals, residing, or acting, in different sections of an extensive country, with few of whim he can be personally acquainted....But still biographers must toil, and the public will read; and till writers shall be endued with the power of ubiquity, and the gift of annihilating both time an space, errors will unavoidably occur in their works; the captious will cavil; and the ill natures, who perhaps can hardly pen a sentence of good English, will be furnished with abundant matter on which to vent their harmless venom. "In preparing the following pages for publication, three points have been constantly in view; 1st. To obtain all information relative to the different subjects, which was within reach; to compare and digest which has cost much labour and care. 2ndly. To search for truth; - and, 3dly, To choose the best language in which to convey the information thus obtained. "The materials are principally gathered from the current publication of the day, which are sometimes too loosely written - at others, penned with evident partiality or prejudice, and occasionally so embellished with altiloquence, or garnished with superlatives, as to appear rather as the work of an exuberant imagination, than like a relation of substantial and indisputable facts. Amidst these various difficulties, more than human ken is requisite to guide the inquiring mind to the fount of truth...." Condition: Textblock "broken" between pp 432-433, but all pages present. Several pages between 420 and 432 with tape holding them in. With other tape on hinges of boards. Wear to leather. Museum library markings and stamps on spine and internally.
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