The Universal Magazine  

George Washington

East India Company

Philadelphia

Shakespeare

Heraldry

Hemp

1789

"...I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire; since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advabtage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnaminious policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...."

-George Washington

"According to letter from America, the cultivation of hemp is introducing all over Massachusetts, 

and on the low lands near Philadelphia...."

London: John Hinton. Original 1789 volume, July - December + Supplement. George Washington, Congress, Shakespeare - Hamlet, William Dampier, Trade -  agriculture, hemp, East India Company, some very lovely heraldry engravings, Philadelphia jail engraving missing or never bound in, book is crisp and clean throughout. Marbled boards and leather spine are scuffed and age-worn but sturdy and handsome still, some spotting on inner boards. Bookplate of Captain Edward Fiott who worked for the East India Company in the 1700s.

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