Franklin Library: BOSTON SILVERSMITH: PAUL REVERE: OLD NORTH CHURCH: 1700s

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Esther Forbes's "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In," Frontispiece Portrait by JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, the 1943 PULITZER PRIZE Winner, published in 1986. Bound in navy blue leather, the book has marbled end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Paul Revere, who lived from 1734 --- 1818, was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and PATRIOT in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION. In 1757, he married Sarah Orne and they became parents to eight children. Sarah died in 1773, and he married Rachel Walker and they became parents to eight children, making a total of 16 children. Revere purchased a house on NORTH SQUARE in Boston's North End where he lived while maintaining his shop nearby Clark's wharf. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW'S poem, "Paul Revere's Ridge" (1861). At age 41, Revere was a prosperous, established and prominent Boston silversmith. He had helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service ended after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade. He used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. In 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels. Revere primarily utilized the apprenticeship model standard for artisan shops of this time. As his business expanded he hired employees. He managed to avoid many of the labor conflicts by adopting a system of employment that still held the trappings of the craft system in the form of worker freedoms such as work hour flexibility, wages in line with skill levels, and liquor on the job. 514 pages, including Notes, Genealogical Data, Bibliography, Maps and Index. I offer Combined shipping.

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