J. 182
Gordon’s Cato’s letters.
4. v.
12
mo.
--
id. 1
st. & 4
th. vol.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 51, Gordon’s Cato Letters, 4v 12mo.
[TRENCHARD,
John
and
Gordon, Thomas.]
Cato’s letters: or, Essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects. In
four volumes. Vol. I. [Vol. III, IV.] The
fifth edition, corrected.
London: printed for
T. Woodward,
J. Walthoe [and others],
m.dcc.xlviii
. [1748.]
DA499 .T7 1748
3 vol. only, lacks vol. II. 12mo. 168, 168 and 167 leaves, in twelves.
Halkett and Laing I, 303.
Lowndes I, 392.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 662.
Original calf repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in each volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate and
that of Reuben Skelton (the latter removed from vol. I).
Volume II was apparently sold to the Library of Congress but has since disappeared. It is called for in the 1849 catalogue,
but listed as missing in that of 1864, and is not included in the manuscript list of missing books made some time after 1815.
The additional copies of the first and fourth volumes listed in Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue were not sold by him to Congress.
John Trenchard, 1662-1723, English political writer, and
Thomas Gordon, d. 1750, Scottish miscellaneous writer, were the joint authors of
Cato’s Letters, which appeared in the
London Journal
and the
British Journal
, from November 5, 1720, to December 27, 1723, 144 numbers. Several editions in four volumes were subsequently published,
the first in 1724.
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J. 183
Gordon’s Independent whig.
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 52, as above.
GORDON,
Thomas [
and
John Trenchard].
The Independent Whig: or, a defence of primitive Christianity, and of our ecclesiastical establishment, against the exorbitant
claims and encroachments of fanatical and disaffected clergymen. By Thomas Gordon, Esq; the
eighth edition, with additions and amendments. In
four volumes. Vol. I. [-IV.]
London: printed for
R. Ware,
T. Longman [and others],
1753,
2.
AP3 .I43
4 vol. 12mo. 148, 134, 174 and 174 leaves. Vol. I and II are the
eighth edition, 1753, 1752; vol. III is the
third edition, 1752, vol. IV the
second edition, 1752. The first volume is the only one with the author’s name. The title of vol. IV differs:
The Independent Whig: being a collection of papers, all written, some of them published, during the late rebellion . . .
Halkett and Laing III, 146.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 662.
Original calf, repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in each volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate and
that of Reuben Skelton.
A number of these papers were originally published in December 1719, at the time of the rejection of the Peerage Bill. A second
part followed in 1720, after which a weekly paper was started, first collected into one volume in 1721. The fifth edition
in 1732 had two volumes, the sixth in 1735 three volumes, and subsequent editions had four volumes. The work was chiefly an
attack on the High Church party, and was a collaboration between Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard.
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J. 184
True Briton.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 172, as above,
The true Briton.
[WHARTON,
Philip, Duke of Wharton.]
The True Briton. In
two volumes. Vol. I. [-II.]
London: printed: and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster.
mdccxxiii
. [1723.]
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