[Frost, John]. Lives and Heroes of the American Revolution : comprising The Lives of Washington and his Generals and Officers who were the most Distinguished in the War of the Independence of the U. S. A.; also embracing The Declaration of Independence and Signers' Names; The Constitution of the United States and Amendments; together with the Inaugural, First Annual and Farewell Addresses of Washington. Embellished with Portraits. Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1849. [12526]
Red publisher's cloth decorated in blind & bright gilt, binding is clean, front joint with worming and weak (please see second photo), light fraying to spine ends, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington with tissue guard, darkly toned; three additional wood-engraved portraits. 370 bright white pages, each with black borders, moderate foxing throughout, text block is tight. 5 pp. publisher's catalogue at end. Good. Hardcover.
Copyright date is 1847. Attributed to John Frost at WorldCat.
The US Constitution is printed with 13 Amendments.
The three additional portraits are of Generals John Stark, Joseph Warren, and Lafayette.
John Frost (1800-1859), b. Kennebunk, Maine; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A teacher and historian, Frost was educated at Bowdoin College and Harvard University, and became principal of the Mayhew School in Boston. In 1838 he moved to Philadelphia, where he was professor of English Literature at the Central High School.
Frost was a prolific author, and sometimes had his students help with his research. This angered some parents, so he left off teaching and devoted himself to writing. He produced some 200 books, many on the American Revolution, and also travelogues, textbooks, nature books, and several on military topics.
His A Pictorial History of the World (1843) earned him an honorary LL.D. from Marshall College.
