[Rarebooks] FS: Fake Washington Bio, w/Tuxedo Connections...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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 [Karpel H721], 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 points 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.

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.  [8601]  $250.00


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