[CAPTIVITY] Johnston, Charles

INCIDENTS ATTENDING THE CAPTURE, DETENTION, AND RANSOM OF CHARLES JOHNSTON OF VIRGINIA. Reprinted from the original, with an introduction and notes by Edwin Erle Sparks.

Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1905. First edition thus. 8vo., map frontis, 156 pp. Publisher's gilt-titled and decorated cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate is stained and has left a transfer on the opposite blank leaf. A very good, unopened copy. Limited to 267 numbered copies, this is copy No.139. Item #54253

In 1790, Charles Johnson, along with several companions, was taken prisoner on the Ohio River. See Howes J-58; Ayer collection No. 166.

Price: $100.00