22 leaves including the half-title, on which the price,
25 Cents, is on this copy, written in ink.
Henry Grattan, 1746-1820, Irish statesman. This address was written on his retirement from the Dublin Parliament in 1797 for reasons of
health. In 1798 he went to England and gave evidence at the trial of Arthur O’Connor [see above] who had been charged with
seditious libel.
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J. 201
Letters from Junius & the papers of the day
[1791-6.
]
1815 Catalogue, page 99. no. 193, Junius redivivus, letters to Pitt, Fox, &c. 8vo 1791-6.
Letters on men, measures, and politics, selected from the papers of the day, beginning with Junius Redivivus. [
London:] printed and sold by
D. I. Eaton, bookseller to the supreme majesty of the people, n.d. [
1794-5]
JA36 .P8 vol. 120
8vo. 84 leaves. The letters are by Junius Redivivus, Brutus, Phocion, A Warning Voice, Philo Junius, A Patriot, and Casca. The dates are from November 1794 to July 1795.
Half calf, repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved under the new endpaper. Initialled by Jefferson
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Daniel Isaac Eaton, d. 1814, English republican bookseller and publisher. He was indicted in London for publishing Politics for the People, or a Salmagundy for Swine, and fled to the United States. Returning to England after three years he was imprisoned for publishing The Age of Reason.
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With this are bound six pamphlets in 8vo. as follows:
1. PIGOTT,
Charles.
Strictures on the new political tenets of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, illustrated by analogy between his different sentiments
on the American and French revolutions; together with observations on particular parts on his last letter to a member of the
National Assembly, and an appeal from the old to the new Whigs. By Charles Pigott, Esq.
London: printed for
James Ridgway,
1791.
8vo. 51 leaves; list of errata on the recto of the second leaf. Upper margin of the title-leaf cut away.
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2.
A Letter from a Right Honourable Aristocrat, to the Right Honourable William Pitt, on the anti-aristocratical tendency of
the Right Honourable Edmund Burke’s Letter to a Noble Lord; with hints for amending Lord Grenville’s, and Mr. Pitt’s patriotic
bills. Also, a recommendation of a tax, for raising the splendid sum of four millions annually, by a mode perfectly comfortable,
and never yet adopted. Pro Pratia! [sic]
London: printed for
D. I. Eaton, price
one shilling,
1796.
8vo. 22 leaves including the half-title; signed and dated at the end:
Aristocrat. April the 1st, 1796.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
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3.
A Letter to the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, from a Westminster elector.
London: printed for
D. I. Eaton,
1794.
8vo. 12 leaves, the second with a list on the recto of Publications by
D. I. Eaton. Signed at the end
A Westminster Elector.
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4. [SAVAGE,
Richard.]
The Progress of a Divine. Without name of place or printer, n.d.
