First Edition, second issue. 66 leaves. This copy is without the printed slip relative to the leaves not included in the copies
sent to England.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 80669.
Evans 11581.
Stevens,
Historical Nuggets, 302.
Church Catalogue 1077.
Bound in half morocco by the Library of Congress (2 leaves misbound). Not initialled by Jefferson.
Prepared by a Committee consisting of James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton. For a full account of this and the
first issue, see the Church Catalogue, no. 1076 and 1077.
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Volume 2
Five pamphlets bound together in one volume, 8vo. calf, labels on the back lettered:
Colonial /
Pamphlets /
Vol. 11. / The pamphlets numbered serially in ink on the titles. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
E187 .C72, vol. 11
1. [MEIN,
John.]
Sagittarius’s Letters and Political Speculations, Extracted From the Public Ledger. Humbly Inscribed To the very Loyal and
Truly Pious Doctor Samuel Cooper, Pastor of the Congregational Church in Brattle Street . . .
Boston: Printed By Order of
the Select Men, and sold at Donation Hall, for the Benefit of the distressed Patriots,
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12mo. 64 leaves only, lacks the last leaf with text on the recto, and the first leaf, possibly blank.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Cushing, page 259.
Sabin 47405.
Evans 14255.
Not initialled by Jefferson, and a correction in ink on page 53 is not in his hand.
A loyalist pamphlet, directed against the colony of Massachusetts, the city of Boston, Dr. Franklin and others. Samuel Cooper,
1725-1783, to whom the
Letters are inscribed, was active in the cause of American freedom, and the author of pamphlets and newspaper articles. He was a
friend of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other leaders.
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2. [GLOVER,
Richard.]
The Substance of the Evidence Delivered to a Committee of the Honourable House of Commons by the Merchants and Traders of
London, Concerned in the Trade to Germany and Holland, and of the Dealers in Foreign Linens, As Summed up by Mr. Glover. To which is Annexed, His Speech, introductory to the Proposals laid before the Annuitants of Mess. Douglas, Heron and Co.
At the King’s-Arms Tavern, Cornhill, on the Ninth of February, 1774.
London: Printed for
J. Wilkie,
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. [Price
One Shilling and Six-Pence.]
8vo. 37 leaves in fours, half-title on Ki for
A Speech Introductory to the Proposals Laid before the Annuitants of Mess. Douglas, Heron & Co. at the King’s-Arms Tavern,
Cornhill, on the Ninth of February, 1774
.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Richard Glover, 1712-1785, English poet and politician, appeared twice before committees of the House of Commons to sum up evidence as to
commercial grievances, and took a prominent part in arranging the affairs of Douglas, Heron and Co., whose failure had occurred
in 1762.
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3. [BURKE,
Edmund.]
Speech of E. Burke, Esq; on American Taxation, April 19, 1774. The
Third Edition.
London, Printed:
Philadelphia: Reprinted and sold by
Benjamin Towne,
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