Signed book: The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas, with Remarks Historical and Critical on Johnson's Life of Greene; To which Is Appended an Appendix of Original Documents Relating to the History of the Revolution. First edition. Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1824. Hardcover bound in three-quarter navy morocco with gray-washed boards, 5.5 x 8.5, 511 pages. Signed on a free end page in ink by Maryland governor John Eager Howard, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati, "John E. Howard, Belvidere." Book condition: VG/None, with light mottled foxing to textblock and the bookplate of Joel Davis Madden, Jr., affixed to front pastedown.
Bibliographer Wright Howes comments on this work: 'Here the son of 'Light Horse' Henry Lee resents the slurs on his father contained in William Johnson's Life of Greene and attacks the credibility of that work.'
Joel Davis Madden, Jr., left Princeton University in 1905 and moved west to make his fortune in the railroad industry. He went on to become an executive with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and died suddenly in 1928 at the age of 41. His book collection, offered by his granddaughter, has not been publicly offered or privately sold in a century.
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