jesty’s Royal License and Authority. For
John Fielding and
John Jarvis,
MDCCLXXXV-VI. [1785-6.]
E208 .A56
First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 225 leaves; vol. II, 225 leaves; vol. III, 224 leaves; vol. IV, 244 leaves; engraved title with
vignette to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece of George III, twenty-two engraved portraits of noted leaders including
Franklin, Washington, Cornwallis, La Fayette, Clinton and others; full page and folded maps; list of Subscribers at the end;
the name of
John Jarvis is omitted from the imprint after the first volume. The work was
originally issued in parts, and the sheets are so numbered, four
sheets to a
part, twenty-eight parts in all.
Rebound in buckram by the Library of Congress in 1920; some uncut edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in each
volume.
Jefferson purchased his copy from
Stockdale, to whom he wrote from Paris on September 26, 1785: “
M(
~r
)
Short is just arrived & brings . . . Andrews’ American war . . . for which m(
~r
)
Jefferson thanks m(
~r
)
Stockdale. he will be obliged to him to continue sending him the Numbers of Andrews’s book . . .”
On July 24, 1786, Jefferson sent an order to Stockdale for a number of books, to be sent to him unbound, including: “
Andrews’ history of the late war. the numbers after 24. I have 24. nos. complete.
Andrews’ history of the war. another copy complete.”
The bill for these books was presented by Stockdale on August 18, 1786:
Andrews Hist
y of y
e War 4 vols. bds. £
1.10. American War No. 25 to 28.
4/-.
On September 10, 1787, Jefferson wrote to Stockdale: “
. . . you may remember that some numbers of Andrews’s history, which you sent me, miscarried, a year or 18. months ago. my
servant found them lately at the Syndic chamber. you had sent them by some traveller I suppose. they had been sent at the
barrier of Paris (where the baggage of travellers is searched) to the Syndic chamber, according to rule. the person gave me
no notice of it. you, trusting to him, had not written to me. and thus they had escaped. when I was in England you replaced
them to me. I therefore now send them to you, to wit, N
os. 4.6.7.8.9. I suppose N
o. 5. has been lost at the Syndic chamber . . .
”
This book is listed, but without the price, in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Jefferson’s name is not mentioned in this history.
John Andrews, 1736-1809, English historical writer and pamphleteer.
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J.43
Gordon’s History of the Independance of the U. S. of America.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 42, as above.
GORDON,
William.
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an account
of the late war; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their origin to that period. By William Gordon, D.D. . . . In
Four Volumes. Vol. I [-IV].
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by
Charles Dilly, and
James Buckland,
1788.
E208 .G66
First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 265 leaves, folded engraved map; vol. II, 296 leaves, 4 folded maps; vol. III, 254 leaves, 2
folded maps; vol. IV, 244 leaves, 2 folded maps; errata lists in each volume, some maps backed.
Sabin 28011.
Lowndes II, page 916.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1908. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in each volume;
some MS. notes appear, not in his hand.
William Gordon announced the forthcoming publication of this book to Jefferson in a letter from London, February 20, 1787:
“. . . I have therefore applied to his Excellency ”
