SEVENTY-SIX! Another Excerpt From the Chronicles of the Rountree Family, This One Touching Upon Those Plots Which Delayed and Those Heroic Actions Which Accomplishe THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in the Year of our Lord 1776.

First edition. Illustrated by Clyde O. DeLand with a colourplate frontispiece, five plates in black and white, and with pictorial embellishments to the start of chapter one, the table of contents and the list of illustrations. The forward/dedication are in manuscript facsimile and a final colourplate pastedown to the upper cover. 8vo, in the publisher's original black cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered and with gilt frame around a large colour pastdown, the spine gilt lettered. xiii, 298pp. A nice and well preserved copy, the text is still very fresh with only a very few occasional and light spots, block a bit shaken as is commonly found, the black cloth is fresh with a bit of minor edgewear, the upper cover gilt vivid and bright, a bit of minor rubbing to pastedown, the gilt on the spine dulled a bit.

Edizione: kauffman's popular story of the days of the american revolution. while the work is called "another excerpt" of the rountree chronicles it is entirely complete within itself. a blend of fiction with fact, seventy-six! tells of a boy, geoffrey rowntree, who gets into unexpected adventures involved with the signing of the declaration of independence.