8vo. 40 leaves in fours.
This edition not in Sabin.
Evans 13852.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, British statesman, was born in Dublin. This speech, in favor of the repeal of the tea duty, was originally published
by Dodsley in London in 1774.
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4. [MORRIS,
Matthew Robinson-, baron Rokeby.]
Considerations on the Measures carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North America. The
Second Edition. With Additions and an Appendix relative to the present State of Affairs on that Continent . . .
London: Printed for
R. Baldwin;
E. and C. Dilly;
J. Johnson;
Richardson and Co; and
J. Almon, n.d. [
1774].
2 parts in 1, 85 and 22 leaves only (lacks the leaf before the title and the last leaf); the second part contains the Appendix
with separate (starred) signatures and pagination; signature E in the first part contains only four leaves which appear to
be a cancel. Four lines of Errata on the back of the title-leaf.
Halkett and Laing I, 416.
Sabin 72152.
Initialled at sig. I by Jefferson who has written on the title-page
By Robinson.
Matthew Robinson-Morris, baron Rokeby, 1713-1800. The first edition of this pamphlet was also undated and was published earlier in the same year. On the verso
of the title-leaf of the second edition is the statement:
The first Edition of this Book having been hastily printed in the country on account of some bills relative to the subject
then depending in Parliament, there were in it besides many errors of the press some omissions; these latter are supplied
in the present edition by the Author together with the addition of an Appendix.
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5. [SHIPLEY,
Jonathan.]
A Speech intended to have been spoken on the Bill for Altering the Charters of the Colony of Massachusett’s Bay. The
Third Edition.
London, Printed;
Philadelphia: Re-printed and Sold, by
William and Thomas Bradford.
m dcc lxxiv
. [1774]
8vo. 18 leaves including the half-title.
Halkett and Laing V, 342.
Sabin 80523.
Evans 13620.
The name of the author written on the title-page by Jefferson:
By Jonathan Shipley Bishop of S
t. Asaph
.
Jonathan Shipley, 1714-1788, Bishop of St. Asaph, was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin. This speech was never delivered. It contains (on
page 25) the now famous statement:
My Lords, I look upon North America as the only great nursery of free men now left upon the face of the earth.
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Volume 3
Eleven pamphlets, all printed in 1774, originally bound together for Jefferson in one volume 8vo., rebound in half blue morocco
by the Library of Congress, lettered on the back in gold:
Colonial /
Pamphlets /
12 /
Jefferson’s copy /
of /
A Summary View /
1774 /; with a portion of the 1815 bookplate preserved. The pamphlets numbered serially in ink on the title-pages.
E187 .C72 vol. 12
1. QUINCY,
Josiah.
Observations on the Act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with thoughts on civil society and standing armies.
By Josiah Quincy, Junior . . .
Philadelphia: printed for
John Sparhawk,
mdcclxxiv
. [1774.]
30 leaves; the dedication
To the Freeholders and Yeomanry of my Country dated from Boston, May 14, 1774.
Sabin 67192.
Evans 13562.
Hildeburn 3091.
See Church 1109.
Josiah Quincy, 1744-1775, lawyer, was educated at Harvard. He died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one on board the ship on which
he was returning to Boston after a secret mission to England. The first edition of the pamphlet was published in Boston by
Edes and Gill in 1774. Dilly published an edition in London in the same year.
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