The life of George Washington : commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, throughout the war which established their independence, and first president of the United States

Originally published in 1807; this ed. has additions in chapters 1, 3, 12 and 13, and omits the dedication and appendix; cf. Bibliotheca Washingtoniana, by W.S. Baker, p. 69

"For the convenience of schools, in which only a small portion of a class-book is read by each scholar in succession, the paragraphs in this biography, when long, have been divided into sections of about ten lines, by a dash (--); a mode considered preferable to the usual ungrammatical practice of making several distinct paragraphs out of one."--Title page verso