Author: De Hass, Wills
Title: History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia
Publication Information: Wheeling: Published by H. Hoblitzell; Philadelphia: Printed by King & Baird No. 9 Sansom Street 1851
Call #: uncataloged
Book Size: 23 cm (H): 15.5 (L); 3 cm (spine)
Cover: brown cover design around the edge; some framework; diamond grain cloth cover (and can see it through the gilt stamping); gold illustration of an Indian standing over a dead man (and it looks like he's scalped him); the same illustration embossed on the back cover, but without the gold spine has "De Hass' History" and " Indian Wars of Western Virginia" in gold (and note fonts)
Inside Book Covers: plain pages inside front cover, peach coated pages inside back cover
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: illustration opposite the title page ("Lewis Wetzel killing three Indians"), Illustrations of Seybert's Fort, and of the Battle of Point Pleasant, interspersed in text
Comments:
- dedication to Hon. Alex. H. H. Stuart Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior
- Preface by the author (May 1851)
- Chapter numbers and descriptions
- Note pull out of French plate/inscription
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Representations of Native Americans
- Development of American Historical Narrative
- Illustration
