3.
Remarks on the Appendix to the present State of the Nation . . .
London: printed for
R. Davis,
1769.
32 leaves, including the half-title and the last blank.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 69436.
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4. [BURKE,
Edmund.]
Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents . . . The
second edition.
London: printed for
J. Dodsley,
mdcclxx
. [1770.]
62 leaves, including the half-title (with the price,
Two shillings and six pence) and the last blank.
Halkett and Laing VI, 38.
Sabin 9303.
Initialled at sig. I by Jefferson who has written on the half-title: by Edmund Burke. The author’s name is written on the title-page by another hand.
This tract was first published earlier in the same year.
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5. [JOHNSON,
Samuel.]
The False Alarm. The
second edition.
London: printed for
T. Cadell,
mdcclxx
. [1770.]
28 leaves, including the half-title, with the price,
one shilling.
Halkett and Laing II, 259.
Sabin 36296.
Courtney, page 114.
Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue [Samuel Johnson, 1909], no. 30.
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English author and lexicographer. This was the first of his political pamphlets, and dealt with the expulsion
of John Wilkes from the House, and the election of Luttrell. The first three editions were published in January, February
and March, respectively, 1770.
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6. [ARBUTHNOT,
John.]
An Inquiry into the connection between the present price of provisions, and the size of farms. With remarks on population
as affected thereby. To which are added, proposals for preventing future scarcity. By a Farmer.
London: Printed for
T. Cadell,
mdcclxxiii
. [1773.]
78 leaves including the half-title (with the price,
two shillings) and the last blank.
Halkett and Laing III, 156.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
John Arbuthnot was a farmer of Mitcham near London.
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J. 188
Political pamphlets of 1727. 1729.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 102. no. 179, as above.
A collection of seven political pamphlets bound together in one volume, 8vo., panelled calf, lettered in ink on the back:
1727. /1729. Two new labels lettered
Political /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 23. / With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Each pamphlet numbered in ink on the first page.
JA36 .P8 vol. 23
1. [HOADLY,
Benjamin.]
An Enquiry into the reasons of the conduct of Great Britain, with relation to the present state of affairs in Europe.
London: printed, and sold by
James Roberts,
m.dcc.xxvii
. [Price
one shilling.] [1727.]
56 leaves in fours.
Halkett and Laing II, 174.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761, bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester. Hoadly was at Salisbury at the time of writing
this pamphlet, in defence of the policy of England and other powers who had formed the Alliance of Hanover after the signing
of the secret treaty of Vienna by the emperor and the king of Spain in 1725.
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