Uncommon book: A General History of the British Empire in America, containing an Historical, Political, and Commercial View of the English Settlements; including all the Countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris, Vols. I and II, by John Huddleston Wynne. Second state of the first edition. London: printed for W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770. Hardcover bound in full brown calf, 5.25 x 8.25, 1066 pages. Book condition: G+/None, with cracked hinges, several pages loose but still attached to binding, wear and rubbing to boards and corners, some scattered staining to textblock, and the bookplate of Joel Davis Madden, Jr., affixed inside each volume.
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.
