A prospective-plan of the battle near Lake George, on the eighth day of September, 1755. With an explanation thereof; containing a full, tho' short, history of that important affair. / By Samuel Blodget, occasionally at the camp, when the battle was fought.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blodget, Samuel, 1724-1807.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lake George, Battle of, N.Y., 1755.

Penn Provenance:

Piets, Abner, Simsbury, Conn. (autograph)

Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 5 pages, 1 unnumbered page (the final page blank), 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

Boston; New-England : Printed by Richard Draper, for the author., 1755.

Notes:

Plan found inserted only in a few copies. (cf. Brinley, Catalogue, v. 1, no. 209) A photographic reproduction of the plan, "S. Blodget del. Thos. Johnston sculp.," is in Mass. hist. soc. Proceedings, 2d series, 1889-90, v. 5, opposite p. 416, with a notice of Blodget and his "Prospective-plan", by Dr. Samuel A. Green. The pamphlet was reprinted, London, T. Jefferys, 1756, [2], 5 p. and an engraving of the plan, "Samuel Blodget delin. T. Jefferys sculp." was published February 2, 1756. A copy of this engraving (dated February 2, 1756) is in Jefferys' General topography of North America, London, 1768. In Johnston's original plate the course of the Hudson is mapped out in the upper portion, running transversely across the plate; in Jefferys' rather free copy it runs down the left hand side of the plan. A lithograph of Jefferys' engraving is given in the Documentary history of the state of New York, 1849-51, v. 4, opposite p. [168], and engravings which omit

Local Notes:

This copy lacks original plan; replaced by lithograph of Jeffery's engraving copied from an engraving in the New York State Library dated Albany, 1852.

Cited in:

Evans 7363

OCLC:

9390207