[Rarebooks] FS: Two Interesting George Washington books

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

One of 55 copies-

Griffin, Appleton P.C.  "A CATALOGUE OF THE WASHINGTON COLLECTION IN THE
BOSTON ATHENAEUM"  Boston Athenaeum: 1897. One of 55 numbered copies
printed on special paper.

This large catalog is divided into four parts- Books from the Library of
George Washington; other books from Mount Vernon; Writings of Washington;
and Washingtoniana.  There is an appendix containing the inventory of
Washington's library drawn up by the appraisers of his estate.  There are
further notes on the Washington books not in the Athenaeum Collection by
William Coolidge Lane, Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum.

Hardcover. 7"x9.5", 566 pages, some b/w illustrations; fine green ribbed
covers with gilt spine title, as issued; a few cover scuffs, but a very
nice copy. Opposite the half-title there is the handwritten note: “No.43
of 55 copies on special paper. Wm. C. Lane, Librarian”. The paper is
heavier and stiffer than that in the trade edition, and the book is about
25 per cent thicker.  [06868]  $300.00

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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”.

Well, now.

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. <p>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.  [08601]  $250.00

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