MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS

by John Binns

$750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP Baltimore? : np, 1828 . Original brown printed wrappers, stitched. 21.5 cm. 8 pp., printed rectos only. Seven of the leaves illustrate gravestones for soldiers shot for desertion by order of Andrew Jackson. The eighth page shows the gravestone of a mother who died from grief. From the rear wrapper: Note. The preceding Monumental Inscriptions, compiled from OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, communicated by the Department of War to Congress, on the 25th January, 1828,

• Binding: Wrappers

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