Biography of Revolutionary Heroes; Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton, and Also, of Captain Stephen Olney

by Catharine R. Williams

$100 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Providence: Published by the author, 1839. Sm. 8vo, 312 pp. Crude woodcut frontispiece showing the capture of Prescott. Original pattern-embossed cloth, black label on backstrip. Joints weak, backstrip ends worn, contents clean, generally good. § First edition of this interesting and fairly early retrospective account of the beginnings of the American Revolution, possibly the first of its kind written by a woman and with a preface in which she criticizes the

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