Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from George Washington as Man of Letters
The inventory of Washington's books made by the appraisers shows that at his death his library numbered about nine hundred volumes, besides mag azines, pamphlets and maps. Compared with other; private libraries of his time, his was very large, for then books were expensive and not numerous in America.
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