The Writings of George Washington: Volumes I - XIV [1748-1799] [Fourteen volume set]
- New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889-1893. First Edition, Letter-Press Edition of 750 copies, this being #489. Fourteen octavo volumes, all ex-library. Thirteen of fourteen volumes bound in uniform library cloth with call numbers and "Ford Edition" stamped to spine; volume four trimmed and thus shorter and in a more recent binding. Light shelfwear; ghosts of stickers to bases of spines. Bindings sound. Regular library markings to preliminaries and endpapers with interior texts unmarked and legible throughout; overall a Very Good, serviceable set of Washington's writings, beginning with a 1748 survey with George Fairfax and ending with his will in 1799. Complete copies of this set uncommon in retail.