Paul Jones Founder of the American Navy A History by Augustus C. Buell in two volumes Volume II
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding Company
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. vii, 373. Frontispiece portraits of Paul Jones, map, plan, double facsimile, diagrams. Inscribed by Buell (1847-1904) to Persifor Frazer on front flyleaf.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This ‘authoritative’ biography of John Paul Jones is larded with fake documentation. See A. Grafton, Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in Western scholarship. London, 1990, pp. 34, 137 n.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103414" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>