THE LIFE OF GEN. FRANCIS MARION, A CELEBRATED PARTISAN OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AGAINST THE BRITISH AND TORIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA BY BRIG GEN. P. HORRY, OF MARION'S BRIGADE: AND M. L. WEEMS. (Spine title: "Life of Marion.") [The Life of General Francis Marion, A Celebrated Partizan Officer . . .]

Edité par Philadelphia [PA]: Stereotyped by L. Johnson; Published by Joseph Allen, and sold by J. Grigg, No. 9 North Fourth Street, 1831.

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Collates as [fp], [frontis], i-vi, 7-76, [b/w plate], 77-86, [b/w plate], 87-114, [b/w plate], 115-152, [b/w plate], 153-206, [b/w plate], 207-252, [rfep], [rp]. Hardcover: H 17.5cm x L 11.25cm. Contemporary full leather; front board detached; rear board tenuous; board edges worn with rear board also having a surface crack to its upper fore-edge corner; spine has long scuff at center with chipping at ends; spine retains its original gilt lettered black title label. Front pastedown has surface peeling, ownership inscription dated 1835, and old colored wax pencil writing; missing ffep and perhaps a ffly (fp immediately opposite frontis' blank recto); varied foxing/toning to interior leaves with a few corners creased from fold-ins; old pencil tracings of two coins on rfep verso. Text block remains firm. Book is now presented in a trimmed Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which aids in securing the boards and modestly enhances shelf presence. Sold as is for the book could use a binder's attention. Popular 19th century account of South Carolina Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion which was first published in 1809 but, with Weems' reputation as a mythopoeist, should be perused with some skepticism and, in that regard, bibliographer Wright Howes (U.S.IANA #H650) commented "General Horry furnished the facts, Parson Weems the rhetoric; so much of it that Horry became indignant and disclaimed all connection with the book.".…

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THE LIFE OF GEN. FRANCIS MARION, A CELEBRATED PARTISAN OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AGAINST THE BRITISH AND TORIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA BY BRIG GEN. P. HORRY, OF MARION'S BRIGADE: AND M. L. WEEMS. (Spine title: "Life of Marion.") [The Life of General Francis Marion, A Celebrated Partizan Officer . . .]
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Horry, P. [Peter Horry], 1743/44-1815, and M.L. Weems [Mason Locke Weems aka Parson Weems], 1759-1825. [Francis Marion, 1732-1795.]
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Philadelphia [PA]: Stereotyped by L. Johnson; Published by Joseph Allen, and sold by J. Grigg, No. 9 North Fourth Street, 1831.
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