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Hardcover, cloth spine lettered in gold over marbled paper covered boards. Limited numbered edition, this being no. 575/1,000. 189pp. Introduction by Emily E. F. Skeel. Printed at the Harbor Press. Weems was well known during the early nineteenth century as a writer of wit, though his most famous book was a biography, “The Life of George Washington”, which attracted much criticism at the beginning of the new century. No name, no book-plate, etc. A clean, attractive, very good copy.