Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-03-20
GREAT NATIONAL WORK!

yHyAPPAN g. BENNETT, ia Washing
n ton street, Boston, proposes to publish,
by subscription, in fourteen monthly numbers,
at the low price oftwenty-five cents each, the
Life of washington,
BY JARED SPARKS.
Each number 10 contain between forty and tif-
~ nages and be embellished with the following
fne steel and copperpIate engravings. viz:
/. Portrait Of Washington at 4O, by Peale,
9. do. Mrs. Washington at 26. by
Wellaston,
8. View of Mount Vernon,
q. Battle of Braddock's defeat,
s. Head quarters at Cambridge,
6. Head quarters at Newburg,
2. Plan of farm at Mount Vernon,
8. Plan of Boston and environs,
8. Head quarters at Morristown,
10. Battle of the Brandywine,
II. Portrait of Washington by Stewart,
~ Encampment at Valley Forge,
l3. Battle at Germantown,
IL. Fac smile of fWashington's Handwriting.
The portraits were copied from the original
nuin,inss. The plans, sketches, and other en-
Trayinss, have been compiled from the best
drawing as well English and French as Amer,
ican. Special aid was derived from series OF
manuscript drawings in the possession OF Cen
eral La Faye,.e, which are executed with scIen-
,ific accuracy and beauty.
The well known ability ofthe author, the
abundant means which he possessed. viz
more than two hundred folio volumes of origi-
nal manuscript, purchased by Congress, ten
wears researches in the public offices in Lon
aon. Paris, Washington, and in all the states
which formed the eonfederacy during the revo-
Int,on. as well as the access he has gained to
vaIua{jie private papers in the different parts Of
the .ountry-have brought into his hands ma
ter;als, original and important in their churac-
Tor which we trust will be found to have con.
tributed essential aid in enabling him to execute
with more accuracy and completeness his main
nnrnose. and thus ohave compensated in some
Seoree for the time and labor they have cost
Its publication has no! only involved extended
and laborious researches OH the part of the edi-
TOR. but great pecuniary responsibilities on the
part Of the publishers.
THE prices affixed to this work is less, when
,be exer,ion is considered, than that Of any
other publication in Europe or America. The
Investment and expenditures connected with
This undertaking are much greater than usually
attend such publications. and it will be appar-
ent that the publishers must rely on an exten-
Give sale Tor their remuneration.
The engraving alone, are thought by many
% he worth the cost of the whole worth To
ron.subscribers the pnce will be enhanced.
MANY testimonials of unqualified approba-
,;o,, might be added, from gentlemen who have
cTamined the work; but the publishers cor
oeive it to be unnecessary.
Letters have been received from many dis
.;nguished persons concurring in the opinion.
that the work is in every respect worthy the
public patronage.
Among the many who have given the work
,be aid Of their subscription and influence, are
the following gentlemen, viz: John Quincy
Adams. Marlin Van Buren,, Jacob Burnet of
0bio. Josiah Quincy, John Pickering, Fran
cis Woylana, D. D., Rev. Moses Stewart, Ro-
6e,, G Shaw, Henry Lee, ESQ.,, Il. 4. B.
Rrownwell, Isaac B. Bates, Horace Everett Of
Vas. Longfelow, Sewell Jones of N. c.,
iobn Sergeant of Philadelphia, Levi Lincoln,
8. Van Rensselaer, of N. Y, VIM. l.. Marcy,
w. Pope of KY, L. w. Tazewel of Va Dan.
Webster. Abbott Lawrence, Joseph Story, Ed
ward EyeI EFT, Charles Jackson, Lemuel Shaw,
Samuel T. Armstrong, w. B. Calhoun, John
q Warren, Gov. John Davis, and Chapman
johnson, ofVa. e.,
employment in procuring subscribers for the
above work.
T Letters addressed to the publishers post
paid with applications for agencies or orders,
ir,;ll meet with prompt attention
TT Postmasters and others who obtain SUBJ
ocr,ntious, aud become responsible for five CO.
s;as shall receive sixth copy gratis; for ten
pis psnhscy;bers, two copies, and at the same rate
Sor more. They will please let the publishers
,'now ~, % how mary copies are subscribed for, and
how they are 10 be forwarded.
Publishers of newspapers who will insert
.,,a above six weeks and forward to Tappan g.
Rerne,t one number Of the paper, shall re-
esive 4 copy orthe work for SO doing:
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