LIFE AS IT IS; OR MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL: CONTAINING, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE EXPLORATION AND FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE; MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS; THEIR WARS WITH THE INDIANS; BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN; HISTORY OF THE HARPS, (TWO NOTED MURDERERS;) A SATIRICAL BURLESQUE UPON THE PRACTICE OF ELECTIONEERING; LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL INCIDENTS; DESCRIPTIONS OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES; A COLLECTION OF ANECDOTES, &C. BY J.W.M. BREAZEALE.
Knoxville: Printed by James Williams, at the Office of "The Post." 1842. Later red half morocco and paper over boards. Gilt spine rules, decorations, and spine title. 256pp. Scattered and generally light foxing. Occasional contemporary pencil marginalia. Leaf 145-146 bound out of order [after page 124]. Except as noted, Very Good. Ownership signature on title page: "Wm. H. Harmon 1867."
This is the first edition of Breazeale's history of Tennessee, covering the array of exciting events and trends, manners and customs, Indian Wars, the murderous Harpe brothers, electioneering and politicking. His purpose is to rescue "from oblivion some important memoranda of the history of the patriarchs of Tennessee-- spreads before his countrymen the light and force of the example of their fathers-- contrasts their plain, economical, republican manners and customs, with the vain, ostentatious, and, in many respects, aristocratic practices of the present age..."
FIRST EDITION. Bradford 530. Allen 1850. Howes B741 'aa.' Streeter Sale 1670. Sabin 7651. Item #38404
Price: $1,500.00