BIB_ID
314358
Accession number
MA 7780
Creator
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.
Display Date
[185-?].
Credit line
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008.
Description
1 item (37 p.), bound : ill. (port.) ; 26.1 cm
Notes
Front paste-down and flyleaf include a photograph and a caricature of George Bancroft and an illustration of Round Hill, his home in Northampton.
Includes extensive revisions in Bancroft's hand.
Printed t.p. reads: "Manuscript of the History of the United States: Condition of the Central Provinces. Volume 8. Chapter 42 [i.e. 45]. New York." The first manuscript page begins: "Chapter XLV: Condition of the Central Provinces. July-October, 1775."
With a photograph of Bancroft, a caricature of Bancroft, and an illustration of Round Hill, his home in Northampton, affixed to the front paste-down and flyleaf.
With a piece of paper with Bancroft's signature on it inserted at the front of the volume.
Includes extensive revisions in Bancroft's hand.
Printed t.p. reads: "Manuscript of the History of the United States: Condition of the Central Provinces. Volume 8. Chapter 42 [i.e. 45]. New York." The first manuscript page begins: "Chapter XLV: Condition of the Central Provinces. July-October, 1775."
With a photograph of Bancroft, a caricature of Bancroft, and an illustration of Round Hill, his home in Northampton, affixed to the front paste-down and flyleaf.
With a piece of paper with Bancroft's signature on it inserted at the front of the volume.
Provenance
Roderick Terry, with his bookplate; Joseph F. McCrindle.
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