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Revolution-era book: An Answer to That Part of the Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., Which Relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis During the Campaign in North America in the Year 1781, by Earl Cornwallis. First edition. London, England: Printed for J. Debrett, (Successor to Mr. Almon), opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1783. Hardcover bound in three-quarter calf leather with marbled boards, and a spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, 6 x 9.25, 260 pages. Book condition: VG-/None, with edgewear, rubbing to spine, and some light staining to textblock.
An important first edition Revolutionary War controversy volume published in the immediate aftermath of Yorktown, containing Lord Cornwallis’s public defense of his conduct during the 1781 campaign and his bitter dispute with Sir Henry Clinton over responsibility for Britain’s defeat in America. The work preserves extensive original correspondence between the two commanders and includes the folding table, “State of the Troops in Virginia,” detailing Cornwallis’s forces immediately before the surrender at Yorktown.
