their several Assemblies. Founded on authentic Documents . . .
London: Printed for
R. Griffiths,
MDCCLIX. [1759.]
F152 .F82
First Edition. 8vo. 235 leaves.
Halkett and Laing III, 55.
Sabin 25512.
Ford 159.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
by Doctor Franklin written by Jefferson on the title-page, some passages marked in ink.
On the fly-leaf is written in ink, probably by Thomas Mann Randolph:
as some remarks are made in the following work to the disadvantage of William Penns character, it may be observed in his vindication;
that at the time when the transactions happen’d in which he appears to have acted differently from himself, his facultys were
impaired by assiduity, and his name was sometimes made use of by others, to purposes to which he was a stranger.
The book is twice entered in Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue, the first time as above with the authorship definitely ascribed to Franklin, the second time with the qualification (
s
d. to be by D
r. Franklin
). It is entered on the undated manuscript catalogue, with the same qualification as to authorship, and with the price,
2/-.
This copy, initialled by Jefferson, was credited to the Jefferson collection in the early Library catalogues. In the 1849
catalogue it lost its Jefferson identification and was put in the general, and later the Franklin, collections.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, who was in London at the time of the publication of the book, is usually supposed to be its author, though he
denied this in a letter to Hume.
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Proud’s history of Pensylvã.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 34, Proud’s history of Pennsylvania, 2 v 8vo.
PROUD,
Robert.
The History of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that Province, under the first
Proprietor and Governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the Year 1742; with an Introduction, respecting, The Life of W.
Penn, prior to the grant of that Province, and the religious Society of the People called Quakers;--with the first rise of
the neighbouring Colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware .
. . With an Appendix. Written principally between the Years 1776 and 1780, by Robert Proud . . . Volume I [-II].
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by
Zachariah Poulson, Junior,
1797-8.
F152 .P96
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. in fours. vol. I, 134 leaves, frontispiece portrait of William Penn; vol. II, 260 leaves, engraved map
of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey & Maryland.
Sabin 66223.
Evans 34421.
Church 1278.
Smith,
Catalogue of Friends’ Books, II, page
433.
Robert Proud, 1728-1813, historian of Pennsylvania, was born in Yorkshire, England. He settled in Philadelphia in 1759, and became an
educator and historian. In this work, for many years the only history of Pennsylvania, Proud made use of the papers of Samuel
Smith, q.v.
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