[JOHNSON, William]

Remarks Critical and Historical on an Article in the Forty-Seventh Number of the North American Review, Relating to Count Pulaski. Addressed to the readers of the North American Review, by the author of the Sketches of the Life of Greene [Hon. John Locke's Copy]

Charleston: C.C. Sebring, 1825. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); stitched-self wrappers; 37pp.; postscript-cum-errata tipped to p. [3]. Stitching nearly unravelled, title page (serving as upper cover) rather soiled with a contemporary "6" and "7" stencilled to upper and lower corners, slightly later (1850) ownership inscription of a J.G. Locke, March 20, 1850, rear cover rather ragged and postally used at time of publication, addressed to the Hon. John Locke at Ashby, Massachusetts. Good only overall. Locke served as a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, in 1829.

Pamphlet by a Justice of the Supreme Court, issued in response to Louis Hue Girardin's article "Pulaski Vindicated from an Unsupported Charge Inconsiderately or Malignantly Introduced in Judge Johnson's Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Major Gen. Nathaniel Greene." Apparently Girardin's was not the only criticism Johnson received for his "Sketches," and in 1826 he retracted what he had written on James Wilson, though not, as is made clear here, of what he wrote on the Polish-American Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski (see the DAB 10, p. 129). SABIN 36343; SHOEMAKER 21068.

Price: $450.00

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