Volume 5
Five tracts bound together in one volume, 8vo. Calf, green silk bookmark. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
E187 .C72, vol. 14
1. [MACPHERSON,
James.]
The Rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America: being an answer to the declaration of the General Congress.
The
eighth edition. To which is now added, a refutation of Dr. Price’s State of the national Debt.
London: printed for
T. Cadell,
m dcc lxxvi
. [1776.]
8vo. 64 leaves, folded table; the text ends on page 97, sig. O, recto; on the verso of the leaf is printed in large letters
the word Appendix.
Halkett and Laing V, 124.
Sabin 27145, 18347.
On the title-page Jefferson has written:
by L
d. George Germaine
; the fore-margins cut close.
This is the first edition of this pamphlet to include
A Refutation of Dr. Price’s State of the National Debt. The authorship is now usually attributed to James Macpherson, 1736-1796, the author of the Ossian poems. Macpherson lived
in America from 1764 to 1766 as secretary to Governor Johnstone at Pensacola, West Florida. On his return to England in the
latter year he was employed by the government as a political writer, and by Lord North’s ministry to write a pamphlet in defence
of their American policy.
The authorship is attributed by Jefferson, and also by others, to Lord George Germaine, 1716-1785, who in 1775 was appointed
by Lord North, Secretary of State for the colonies. Other attributions are to Sir John Dalrymple, and to Henry Mackenzie,
the “Man of Feeling”. Sabin has three entries for the pamphlet, under the title, Dalrymple, and Germaine. He does not enter
it under Macpherson.
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2. TUCKER,
Josiah.
The True Interest of Britain, set forth in regard to the Colonies; and the only means of living in Peace and Harmony with
them, including five different plans, for effecting this desirable event. By Jos. Tucker, D.D., Dean of Glocester. Author of the Essay on the advantages and disadvantages which respectively attend France and Great-Britain,
with regard to trade. To which is added by the Printer, A few more Words, on the freedom of the press in America.
Philadelphia: printed, and sold, by
Robert Bell,
mdcclxxvi
. [1776.]
8vo. 36 leaves, the last with
Bell’s advertisement, the two preceding (unnumbered) with the
publisher’s “few more Words”, the last with reference to
Plain Truth
and
Additions to Plain Truth
, published in 1776 (see no. 3113).
Sabin 97366.
Evans 15119.
Hildeburn 3488.
Other pamphlets by Tucker occur in this catalogue. q.v.
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3. PRICE,
Richard.
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America.
To which is added, an Appendix, containing A State of the national debt, an Estimate of the money drawn from the public by
the taxes, and an Account of the national income and expenditure since the last war . . . By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
London printed,
1776.
Philadelphia: reprinted and sold by
John Dunlap, n.d. [
1776]
