A concise account of the origin and use of coat armour : with some observations on the beneficial purposes to which heraldry may be applied in the United States of America / by William Barton, Esq. A.M. Member of the American philos. Society, Philadelphia, 1788.

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Barton, William, 1754-1817. A concise account of the origin and use of coat armour : with some observations on the beneficial purposes to which heraldry may be applied in the United States of America / by William Barton, Esq. A.M. Member of the American philos. Society, Philadelphia, 1788.

A concise account of the origin and use of coat armour : with some observations on the beneficial purposes to which heraldry may be applied in the United States of America / by William Barton, Esq. A.M. Member of the American philos. Society, Philadelphia, 1788.

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The manuscript (undoubtedly the first scholarly work on this subject in the U.S.) was submitted to Washington for his views on the usefulness of the work. The correspondence is published in Appleton P.C. Griffin's A Catalogue of the Washington Collection ... (Boston, 1857) p. 18.

1 item (35 p.) ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum