Manuscript sheet of book-keeping, possibly for Irving's Life of George Washington
$900 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
1 page. 8vo. Laid on larger sheet. Item #305647 A working reckoning in Irving's hand of relative word and page counts in his work. Bancroft first vol 34 lines of 42 words}1428 words on a page ... WI ms. 24-36 865 words per page; average of my ms. pages in 1 vol 966 ... about 805 of my ms pages make 500 specimen pages ... my pages average 966 words on a page etc. The figuring possibly refers to Irving's Life of George Washington 1856-59 as
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