(WAR OF 1812) Samuel Woodworth editor The War

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(WAR OF 1812.) Samuel Woodworth, editor. The War. Volumes I and II, nearly complete: 52 and 51 issues, each at least 4 pages, in one volume. 218, 206 pages. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn, backstrip perished, small manuscript label on front board; toning, minor foxing, intermittent moderate dampstaining, tightly trimmed with loss of a few headers and page numbers, lacking II:52 and the index and collective title leaves seen in some volumes; inscriptions of 2 early Pennsylvania owners on front pastedown. New York, 27 June 1812 to 7 June 1814

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Features coverage of the USS Constitution's defeat of the HMS Guerriere, the struggles for Detroit, the capture of the USS Chesapeake, and much more. The 5 October 1813 issue has extensive reports on the Battle of Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry's classic dispatch is quoted in full ("We have met the enemy--and they are ours.") The enduring appeal of these words is immediately recognized by the editor, who asserts that it "resembles the veni, vedi, vici of the immortal Julius more than anything we have before seen." Complete except for the final issue of Volume II and the handful of scattered issues released for Volume III. "The most complete magazine account of the War of 1812"--Lomazow 105.