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Scarce and sought-after first edition book set: The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Vols. I–V, compiled under the inspection of Bushrod Washington and written by Chief Justice John Marshall. First edition. Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1804–1807. Hardcovers bound in full marbled calf, 5.5 x 8.75, totaling 3230 pages. Book condition: G+/None, with edgewear and rubbing to boards, some chips and small tears at spine heads, browning to textblocks, and ownership signatures of William Withers to endpapers, and bookplates of Robert W. Withers affixed to front pastedowns.
After his appointment to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall began working on a biography of George Washington. He did so at the request of his close friend, Associate Justice Bushrod Washington, who had inherited the papers of his uncle. Marshall's The Life of George Washington, the first biography about a U.S. president ever published, has been praised by historians for its accuracy and well-reasoned judgments. According to Robert K. Faulkner, the work 'is political history as well as biography…the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of the full founding of the United States—of the founding of an independent people as well as of its government…There is no other concentrated history of the essentials by such an authority on American institutions.'
