Imprint Record

The Philanthropist (B).

• Imprint Number: 1799.048
• Title: The philanthropist: or, A good twenty-five cents worth of political love powder, for honest Adamites and Jeffersonians: with the following recommendation by George Washington. [Fourteen line letter from Washington to Weems dated Aug. 29, 1799; followed by six lines of verse] By the Rev. M.L. Weems (of Lodge No. 50), Dumfries.
• Sequence Number: 48
• Year: 1799
• Place Issued: Alexandria
• Issuing Press: John & James D. Westcott
• Author: Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825).
• Notes: A reissue of the original Alexandria edition (1799.047) with a new title page and the addition of a two-page leaf immediately thereafter of the letter of recommendation from George Washington; otherwise, the typography is identical; identified here as the "B" variant.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Rev. Mason Locke Weems, M.D.
  • James Diament Westcott, Sr.
  • John Sr. Westcott

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