Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making It a Benefit to the World
London / Amherst, NH: Joseph Cushing, 1805. Very Good-. Item #46632
London / Amherst, NH: Reprinted by Joseph Cushing, June, 1805. Small octavo (18cm); original blue sugar paper with crude vernacular stitching, mid-19th century ex libris of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society to upper cover; 80pp. (collated complete). Wrappers worn with spine partly perished and occasional spots of nibbling and worm holing along margins and bottom fore-edge corner of title page (text unaffected), contemporary ownership signature of a Benjamin Johnson at head of title page and later ink notes inside upper cover; overall Good to Very Good.
Scarce reprint of Price's popular pamphlet first published in London in 1784. Price had become a supporter of the American revolutionaries as early as 1776 with the publication of his pamphlet "Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America," whose first edition sold out within a couple of days, guaranteeing that "his name thus became identified, for good repute or for evil repute, with the cause of American independence" (DNB XVI, p. 335). The text concludes with a letter by the French economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot.
Shaw & Shoemaker 9194; see also Sabin 65449.
Price: $250.00