FRAGMENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. BEING HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF THE MEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

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xii,188,[2]pp. Large octavo. Dbd. from larger volume. Some gatherings detached, but all text present. Edge wear, small faint tideline to lower edge throughout, else the text quite clean. A good, wide-margined copy. Untrimmed and partially unopened. A compilation of correspondence by figures of the Revolution such as Lafayette, Washington, Monroe, Putnam, Clinton, Meade, John Paul Jones, Franklin, and many others. Gaillard Hunt was head of the Manuscripts Division at the Library of Congress from 1909-17, and in that position edited and published the writings of many of the leading figures in American history. This compilation was published by the short-lived but important Historical Printing Club, a project spearheaded by Paul Leicester Ford to publish numerous significant works in American history that were otherwise lost, forgotten, or effectively unavailable. Ford's BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS is advertised on the terminal leaf of this volume. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM57650

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