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WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Jared SPARKS, editor. The Writings of George Washington . Volume I, XII: Boston: American Stationers’ Company. John B. Russell, 1837, Volumes II-IX: Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1834-1935. Volumes X-XI: Boston: Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1836.
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Jared SPARKS, editor. The Writings of George Washington . Volume I, XII: Boston: American Stationers’ Company. John B. Russell, 1837, Volumes II-IX: Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1834-1935. Volumes X-XI: Boston: Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1836. 12 volumes, 8° (225 x 141 mm). Half-titles, advertisements in vols. II and III, illustrated with engraved portraits, maps, plans, and facsimiles. (Some light spotting.) Publisher’s muslin-backed boards, edges untrimmed, printed paper spine labels. Provenance : A. Gilman (signatures on flyleaves). FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES of all volumes. The Mt. Vernon Digital Encyclopedia entry on George Washington’s papers notes: “In January 1827, Bushrod Washington gave editor Jared Sparks permission to publish some of Washington's papers. During his work, Sparks moved many of the papers to Boston and he visited repositories in both the United States and Europe to search for letters and documents not represented in Washington's own papers. Unfortunately he was also free with giving favors of Washington’s handwriting." Sabin 101765.