The writings of George Washington
Subtitle: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations
By: By Jared Sparks
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 1714-1786; Making of modern law
Publisher: American Stationers' Company, John B. Russell
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: History; Sources
Notes: Includes index.

Imprint: vol. 1,12; Boston, American Stationer's Company, John B. Russell, 1837. v.2-6; Boston, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co. 1834. v.7-9; Boston, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835. v.10-11; Boston, Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1836.

Bound in maroon leather; stamped in gold; marbled edges; marbled endpapers.

Bookplates of Henry B. H. Beaufoy and Ralph Frederica Pulitzer.

Purchased from Gilman, Crompond, N.Y.
Table of contents: title: v.1. Life.; title: v.2. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution, 1754-May, 1775.; title: v.3-8 Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution. June, 1775, to July, 1776 (v.3); July, 1776, to July, 1777 (v.4); July, 1777, to July, 1778 (v.5); July, 1778, to March, 1780 (v.6); March, 1780, to April, 1781 (v.7); April, 1781, to December, 1783 (v.8).; title: v.9. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States, December, 1783, to April, 1789.; title: v.10. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life. May, 1789, to November, 1794 (v.10) November, 1794, to Demember, 1799 (v.11).; title: v.12. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses.