Atlas to Marshall’s Life of Washington.

YEAGER, Joseph. [John Marshall; George Washington].

Item Number: 142529

Philadelphia: Published by J. Crissy, [1832].

The rare atlas volume to the 1832 second edition of Marshall’s Life of Washington. Octavo, disbound, engraved title with vignette of Washington passing the River Delaware and ten numbered hand-colored double-page maps illustrating important Revolutionary War battles and campaigns, all finely engraved by Joseph Yeager. Marshall’s Life of Washington was first published between 1804 and 1807 by C. P. Wayne in Philadelphia in four octavo volumes, plus a quarto atlas volume containing the maps and subscribers’ names. In good condition.

John Marshall's description of the life, character, and achievements of the "Father of America" is unparalleled by any other author. As a contemporary and peer of Washington, he has a unique and intimate perspective on the man that no other historian can claim. If you want a first hand description of this history changing figure, John Marshall's work is essential. The work “is political history as well as biography… the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of the full founding of the United States— of the founding of an independent people as well as of its government… There is no other concentrated history of the essentials by such an authority on American institutions” (Robert K. Faulkner).