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Lot 135
[WASHINGTON, GEORGE] A volume from Washington's library, with clipped holograph words to pastedown.
The book is Samuel Johnson Pratt's Family Secrets, London: 1798, volume III only from the second edition (issued in five volumes). Contemporary calf with red lettering label, the inside pastedown with three clipped words in Washington's hand ("with the said") above the large booklabel of Benjamin Lincoln Lear, the volume housed in a fine red morocco backed slipcase. 7 x 4 inches (17 x 11 inches); 434 pp. The joints tender and the boards rubbed, but fine and unrestored overall.
The set in which this volume originated was listed in a manuscript by Washington's private secretary Tobias Lear titled Catalogue of Books received from Washington, and bears the bookplate of Lear's son Benjamin Lincoln Lear. This volume sold as part of lot 2003 at James D. Julia, 4 February 2010; the set has since been broken up and we note volume V from this set sold University Archives, 24 June 2020, lot 264.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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