The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-03-22
LIFE OF WASHINGTON,

BIZ JARED SPARKS.
Each No contains between 40 and 80 pages
and TO be embellished with the following
fine Steel and copperpate engravings, viz:
l Portrait of Washington, at 40, by
Peale.
2 Portrait of Mrs. Washington, at 90, by
Woiaston.
View of Mount Vernon.
Blttle of Braddock's Defeat.
Head Quarters at Cambridge.
Plan of Boston and Environs.
Head Quarters at Morrlstown.
Head Quarters AT Newhurg.
Plln of Farms at Mount Vernon.
10 Battle of the Brandywine.
IL Portrait Of Washington, by Stuart.
10 Encampment at Valey Forge.
IS Battle at Germantown.
Ia Fac-Simile % Washington's hand wri
writing.
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paintings. The plans, sketches, and other en-
cravings, have been compil from the best draw
ings as y I'll as English and French as American.
Special aid was d..rv, from series of manu-
script drawings in The possion OF General Lafay-
cite, which are executed with scientific accuracy
and beauty.
The well known ability of the author, the a.
bun aaut means which he possessed, viz-hoTe
;has Two hundred folio volumes of original man
searches in the public Offices in London, L r;s,
Washington and all the States which formed the
confede err icy during the r,vol ion; as well tho
access he has glined 10 valuable private papers
in different pats Of the country, have brought
into his hands mass of Materials, original and
important in their character, which we trust VIII
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