First Edition in
English. 24 leaves: A-C
8.
Sabin in note after 3423.
Dexter IV, 13.
Howard, page 421.
This letter is dated from Chambéry, Dec. 27, 1792, and was immediately issued in French, but was not published in English
until this London edition of 1795, followed in the same year by a New York edition. It is written from the same point of view
as the author’s
Letter to the National Convention
. Dexter cites the New York edition before that of London.
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2. BARLOW,
Joel.
Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe, resulting from the necessity and propriety of a general revolution
in the principle of government. Part II.
Second edition. By Joel Barlow . . .
London: printed and sold by
Daniel Isaac Eaton . . .
1795. Price
two shillings. [Entered at Stationer’s Hall.]
36 leaves; the introduction signed by L. Goldsmith, June 10, 1795.
Sabin 3414.
This edition not in Dexter, and not in Howard.
The first edition of Part II was published in Paris in 1793. For another edition of Part II see no. 2828 above.
Books by Lewis Goldsmith appear in this catalogue.
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3.
The British Cato, to the British people! printed and sold by
D. I. Eaton, n.d.
Another copy of no. 2843 above.
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4. PIGOTT,
Charles.
Strictures on the new political tenets of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke . . .
Another copy of no. 2838 above. This copy lacks the two preliminary leaves with the errata and preface.
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5.
The Prospect Before Us!!! or the state of France in the month of August, 1794; in reply to Montgaillard’s state of France:
to which are added, Reflections on the expedience and necessity of an immediate peace with the French Republic . . . By Horatius Publicola.
London: printed for the author.
1794. [Price
two shillings and sixpence.]
59 leaves only, should be 60, lacks the half-title; the pagination begins with page (9) immediately after the title-leaf;
the text is apparently perfect; other copies examined collate similarly.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
This tract has been attributed to Joel Barlow but is not included in the list of his works by Dexter or Howard. It is concerned
with the writings of Montgaillard [q.v.].
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J. 204
The Philanthropist.
8
vo.
1797.
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 194, The philanthropist, 1795, 6, 8vo.
The Philanthropist. Monday, March 16th, 1795 [-Monday, January 25, 1796].
London: printed for and sold by
Daniel Isaac Eaton, printer and bookseller to the supreme majesty of the people . . .
1795. [-1796.] Price
one penny.
DA520 .P45
8vo. 43 numbers, all published.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 666.
Original half binding; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
A republican periodical containing pieces in prose and verse, including some signed Common Sense, and an Ode to Kentucky.
For a note on D. I. Eaton see no. 2837 above.
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