Title vignette.
"This edition, printed at the Riverside press, Cambridge, is limited to four hundred and forty copies of which four hundred are for sale. This is number 439."
"The accounts of the expenses of the commander-in-chief of the Continental army were kept in duplicate by Washington himself. One he transmitted, at the close of the war, to the Board of treasury of the Continental congress for auditing ... the other he retained, and it is from this document, now in the Library of Congress, that the accounts are now reproduced in photographic facsimile."- Pref. note.