Richard Oswald's memorandum :
on the folly of invading Virginia, the strategic importance of Portsmouth, and the need for civilian control of the military; written in 1781 by the British negotiator of the first American treaty of peace /
edited, with an essay on the author and times, by W. Stitt Robinson, Jr.
Description
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English
- Published
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Charlottesville, Published by the University of Virginia Press for the Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1953.
- Note
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"Richard Oswald's Memorandum has been produced in an edition of seven hundred and fifty copies at the University of Virginia Press. The machine and hand composition is by Mark Rinker; the presswork is by Bill Travis. The body type is Linotype Baskerville; the handset display is Goudy Bold. The four-color frontispiece and the three-plate map were engraved by the Royal Engraving Company of Richmond, Virginia, and were printed on a Kelly B press by Jesse A. McCrary. The paper is Arches Moldmade."--Colophon.
- Physical Description
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61 p.
port., facsim.
25 cm.
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