[Rarebooks] FS: G.Washington, Frauds & Tuxedos- in one 1887 book!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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Walter, James. MEMORIALS OF WASHINGTON AND OF MARY, HIS MOTHER, AND MARTHA, 
HIS WIFE, FROM LETTERS AND PAPERS OF ROBERT CARY AND JAMES SHARPLES.

New York; Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887.

John Lovari, writing in Karpel, notes- "Apparently an interesting and 
valuable account of Sharples's connection with the Washington family, with 
comments on Robert Fulton and his friendship with Sharples and on the two 
men as artists and scientists. Although this is a seemingly plausible and 
valid description of the book after a first reading of it, the work, an 
abridged version of which had appeared in 1886 under the title 'History and 
Descriptive Details of Middleton's Portraits of Mary, the Mother of 
Washington', ranks with Clifford Irving's recent 'biography' of Howard 
Hughes as one of the major hoaxes of the publishing world. Walter was 
attacked on twelve point of plagiarism, forgery, and fabrication of 
evidence by the members of the Massachusetts Historical Society". [Karpel H721]

Well, now.

 From the library, with the small printed book ticket, of the noted 
American book collector Grenville Kane, the bulk of whose Americana and 
Incunabula collections are now at Princeton. In addition to being an 
important book collector, Kane was also a founding member of the Tuxedo 
Club, a group of wealthy New Yorkers who summered together at Tuxedo Park 
in upstate New York; the group was responsible for introducing to American 
Society the new-fangled semi-formal dinner jacket worn at a dinner by the 
Prince of Wales, and naming it the... yes, that's right.

Hardcover. 6.5"x10", xii + 362 pages, plus 12 b/w plates; erratum slip; 
publisher's green cloth with black decorations and Washington's coat of 
arms stamped in gilt; slight wear, but overall a very nice, crisp, clean 
copy.  [08601] $250.00

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