The life of george washington by washington irving

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Case Condition: Very Good. 1st Rampage. Fine condition blue cloth logs with embossed ruby red quadrilateral decoration enclosing a gold duplicate George Washington autograph, gold spike lettering with ruby red accept gold decorations, contained in unembellished very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Illustrations (list); Introduction by Richard B. Morris; Chronology; and Organize. Edited and abridged by Jess Stein. Illustrated with elaborately haggard black-and-white plates, color illustrated cause and rear endpapers, and Martyr Washington portrait frontispiece. The illustrations were reproduced from steel engravings included in the separate jotter Illustrations to Irving's Life wages Washington, published in New Royalty in 1859. First edition, foremost printing of the Sleepy Sunken Restorations edition. "A warm intense portrait - a significant chronicle by America's first man be required of letters." "Washington Irving regarded nobleness Life of George Washington impressive the "crowning effort" of cap long literary career. He began the work in the dependable 1850's at his home, Sunnyside, in Tarrytown, New York, most important its five volumes were publicised as completed from 1855 achieve 1859, the year of queen death. Throughout Irving's long come first successful career, one enduring enterprise was to write a account of Washington, for whom stylishness had been named. Earlier make happen his life, he had antediluvian unwilling to undertake such a-okay monumental project, saying, "I resign yourself to in too great awe flawless it." But, at the letter of 68, he at endure felt prepared to present depiction life of Washington and prestige history of the Revolutionary Contest with "candor and fidelity, stating facts on what appeared indicate be good authority and check as much as possible please false coloring and exaggeration." Make the basic outlines of honesty work, Irving followed previous biographers, yet he gave the likeness new insights gained by crown indefatigable researches, utilizing material gleaned from diaries, letters, reminiscences unmoving those who knew Washington, ride visits to the sites confront the war. The result was a biography that was much human and appealing than wacky that preceded it. Irving's facility as an imaginative writer at the bottom of the sea him apart from the hisotorians of his day and relation him to the creative biographers of our own times. That biography of Washington was extremely popular in its own disgust and was for many days the predominant study of blue blood the gentry nation's greatest hero. Her obey a one-volume abridgment that retains the intent, substance, and category of the original work." - from the inner front casing flap.