Publisher:
Rutland (VT), Fay and Davison: 1815
8vo (5½”x 8¾”). Two volumes in one. Vol. I: pp. 336. Vol. II: p. [337]; battle plan opposite p. 261. Contemporary full calf with a brown spine label with a smooth spine divided into 6 compartments by gold double rules. Speckled edges. The first edition of this detailed contemporary account of the events of the War of 1812. "The Sketches" were originally issued in 8 numbers during the war, and were collected together in the present volume for the first time. The author states on the verso of the title page: "Readers, who may not have perused this work, as it progressed from ...
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