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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watterston, George, 1783-1854, author.

Contributor:

Gideon, Jacob, Jr., 1788-1864, publisher, printer.

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