The Life and Times of Washington: Containing a Particular Account of National Principles and Events, and of the Illustrious Men of the Revolution.

SCHROEDER, John Frederick [George Washington].

$850.00

Item Number: 147336

New York : Johnson, Fry, and Company, 1857.

First edition of this exceptional biography of the first President of the United States. Two volumes, quarto, bound in the publisher’s full embossed morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt titles to the front and rear panels, elaborate borders stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, turnins and inner dentelles stamped in blind, all edges gilt, tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of George Washington and engraved title page to both volumes, illustrated with highly-finished steel engraved plates by Alonzo Chappel. In very good condition.

George Washington was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution. He is popularly considered the driving force behind the nation's establishment and came to be known as the "father of the country," both during his lifetime and to this day.