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Letters from Washington, on the Constitution and laws : with sketches of some of the prominent public characters of the United States : written during the winter of 1817-18 / by a foreigner.
LIBRA - Rare E371 .W33 1818
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watterston, George, 1783-1854, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1817-1825.
- United States.
- Washington (D.C.)--Politics and government.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Statesmen--United States.
- Statesmen.
- Politics and government.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fiske, Thomas (autograph) (LIBRA Rare copy)
- Gourdi(?), S., Jr. (autograph) (LIBRA Rare copy)
- Physical Description:
- 139, [1] pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- City of Washington : Printed and published by Jacob Gideon, junr., 1818.
- Notes:
- Attributed to George Watterston by Shaw and Shoemaker.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy has bookseller's manuscript note in pencil on front pastedown; contemporary manuscript notes on title leaf and page 139.
- LIBRA Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953 from Seven Gables Bookshop.
- LIBRA Rare copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Tho. Fiske 1830") on front pastedown; autograph ("Thomas Fiske") on blank leaf preceding title leaf; dated 19th-century autograph ("Thos. Fiske 1830.") on title leaf; autograph ("S. Gourdi[?] Jnr") on page [7].
- LIBRA Rare copy bound in publisher's printed blue paper boards (advertisement on right board); edges untrimmed.
- LIBRA Rare copy: top portion of front free endpaper and head margin of title leaf torn off with loss of manuscript inscriptions (that on title leaf dated: 1818).
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 46708
- OCLC:
- 1511579
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