Marshall, John

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces. London: T. Gillet [later J.G. Barnard] for Richard Phillips, 1804-1807

5 volumes, 4to (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.; 285 x 223 mm, uncut). Large paper copy. Portrait and 14 plates, extra-illustrated with ca. 279 18th- and 19th-century portraits, views, maps, and facsimiles; lightly browned, occasional marginal spotting and offsetting, last map in volume 1 detached, occasional fold-tears. Later green three-quarter morocco gilt, spines richly gilt, top edge gilt; small cracks in some upper joints, extremities rubbed, head of spine in vol. 5 chipped.

James Frederic Joy (1810-1896, bookplate) — Henry Bourne Joy (1864-1936, bookplate, both luminaries of Detroit Michigan)

lightly browned, occasional marginal spotting and offsetting. Later green three-quarter morocco gilt, spines richly gilt, top edge gilt; small cracks in some upper joints, extremities rubbed.
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First edition and an extraordinary copy, of the first large-scale biography of the first President of the United States, written by the renowned Chief Justice who, as leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia, presented his subject in the best possible light.