Description
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York, Published 1948. Hardcover, viii, 120 pp.; 23 x 15 cm; illustrated with black-and-white plates including a frontispiece from a painting by Andrew Wyeth and reproductions of period engravings, paintings, and battle plans. Publication No. 51 of the Society. Publisher's cloth binding (the trade issue was in wraps), possibly a presentation binding for the Society members. The text block shows staple punches about a quarter inch in from the binding edge, suggesting the gathering was originally stapled as wraps before being cased in cloth by the publisher.
Condition & notes
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with cream cloth spine, gilt-stamped title on the front board above a large gilt-stamped Society seal. Mild shelf wear with light spotting and soiling to the spine cloth and some color loss along edges and corners of the red cloth. Binding is tight and square. Previous owner's attractive Art Deco bookplate on the front pastedown depicting a young sailor reading beneath stylized full-rigged ships. Pages clean and otherwise unmarked.A concise illustrated history of the principal military conflicts of the American colonial period, prepared by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1872 to circa 1955) on behalf of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York. Issued in the Society's Fiftieth Anniversary Monograph series. Wade summarizes the chronology and significance of the Pequot War, Bacon's Rebellion, King Philip's War, the Great Swamp Fight, and the four Anglo-French wars culminating in the capture of Quebec, drawing on bibliographies the Society had previously commissioned during the 1930s and 1940s. From the foreword by Governor Messmore Kendall: "For the enlightenment of the present generation about the activities of the early American patriots before the Revolution."Contents: Chronology; Foreword; The Colonial Wars in America; Indian Wars in New England; The Pequot War; Virginia and Bacon's Rebellion; French and English Relations; King Philip's War; The Great Swamp Fight; King William's War; Queen Anne's War; King George's War; Capture of Louisbourg; Resumption of Hostilities (The French and Indian War); Battle of Fort Du Quesne; Battle of Lake George; Colonial Problems; Capture of Fort William Henry; Repulse at Ticonderoga; Second Capture of Louisbourg; Capture of Fort Frontenac; The Capture of Fort Du Quesne; The Capture of Fort Niagara; The Capture of Ticonderoga; The Capture of Quebec; List of Preferred Reading of the American Colonial Period.
