Patterson, David Williams:

$600 · Offered by William Reese Company

MEMORABLES OF THE MONTGOMERIES. Number 9 of ten large paper copies with the folding genealogical table, hand numbered and signed by Patterson. This publication reprints a heroic poem, first published in 1770, recording the exploits of the Montgomerie family, the family line from which Gen. Richard Montgomery of the Continental Army was descended. It includes a large folding table showing the family tree. With the bookplate of Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter on the front pastedown, and his notes indicating: "This copy belonged to J. Hammond Trumbull. A letter, authenticating this provenance and mentioning a faulty 1st issue of this edition, to Trumbull from D. Williams Patterson was stolen from me while at the binders." Trumbull was a Connecticut scholar and philologist who held several state government positions in his lifetime and was the librarian of the Watkinson Library. With the original prospectus and several plates of Montgomery taken from other works laid in.

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