THE PRESENT STATE OF VIRGINIA, AND THE COLLEGE, BY HENRY HARTWELL, JAMES BLAIR, AND EDWARD CHILTON EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HUNTER DICKINSON FARISH. Williamsburg Restoration Historical Studies, No. I. [College of William and Mary.]

Hartwell, Henry, c.1636-c.1699, James Blair, 1656-1743, and Edward Chilton, 1658-1707. Hunter Dickinson Farish, 1897-1945 (editor, Introduction). [College of William and Mary.]

Edité par Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, 1940.

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First thus INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY THE EDITOR. lxxiv, 1054 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 16.25cm. Cream colored dust jacket soiled and toned particularly at spine, long tear and shallow chipping at spine head with 2.25cm deep chip at heel plus small chip near center affecting title lettering, shallow chipping and wear at panel edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board. Deckle fore-edge and bottom edge; toning to fore-edge and top edge with latter have some soiling as well. Light toning/foxing to endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket with the editor's five-line ink inscription upon the front free endpaper: "For | Emmet Kilpatrick, Esq., | in token of friendship, | Hunter D. Farish | May 11, 1940." The inscribee, whose first name was misspelled by Dr. Farish, was fellow Alabama scholar and Troy State College (now Troy University) professor Emmett Kilpatrick (1890-1968) as the book was part of a large collection indirectly acquired from his estate.

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• Titre: THE PRESENT STATE OF VIRGINIA, AND THE COLLEGE, BY HENRY HARTWELL, JAMES BLAIR, AND EDWARD CHILTON EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HUNTER DICKINSON FARISH. Williamsburg Restoration Historical Studies, No. I. [College of William and Mary.]
• Éditeur: Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, 1940.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
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