The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-02-08
LIFE OF WASHINGTON.

By JARED SPARKS.
Each No. contains between 40 and so pages
and to be embellished with the following
fine Steel and copperplate engravings, viz:
Portrait of Washington, at 20, by
Peale.
Q Portrait of Mrs. Washington, at 26, by
Wollaston.
8 View of Mount Ternon.
a Battle of Braddock's Defeat.
Head Quarters at Cambridge.
6 Plan of Boston and Environs.
Head Quarters at Morristown.
8 Head Quarters at Newburg.
Plan of Farms at Mount Ternon.
10 Battle of the Brandywine.
II Portrait of Washington, by Stuart.
10 Encampment at Valley Forge.
IS Battle at Germantown.
Ia Facsimile o. Washington's hand uri-
writing.
The portraits were copied from the original
paintings. The plans, sketches, and other en-.
Cravings, have been compiled from the best draw.
ings, as we'll as Eng lish and French as American.
Special aid was derived from a series of manu-
script drawings in the passion of General Lafay-
cite, which are exesutsd with scientific ACCURACY
and beeuty.
The well known ability of the author, the a.
buudant means which he possessed, yiz-nore
than two hundred folio volumes of original man
uscriPts, purchased by Congress; ten years re-
searches in The public Offices in London. Paris.
Washington, and all the State. which formed the
confederacy during the revolution; q, well rs tho
access he has gained to valuable private papers
in different parts Of the country, have brought
into his hands . mass Of materials, original and
important in their character, which we trust will
be found TO have contrb uted essential aid in en-
aolng him to execute with more accuracy and
completeness his main purpose, and thus t. have
compensated in some degree for the time and la
Dor they have cost. Its publication has not only
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