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[DICKINSON John]
£320
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A new essay [by the Pennsylvanian farmer] on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America; with the resolves of the Committee for the Province of Pennsylvania and their instructions to their representatives in assembly ... 1st English edition, pp. viii [i.e. vi, lacking half title], 126, [i] of books printed for J. Almon, verso blank, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in quarter calf, 8vo., London: Almon, 1774
Note: Sabin 20046
First British printing after the Philadelphia printing of the same year of this influential pre-revolution work . The author was a successful Philadelphia attorney and a member of the Delaware and Pennsylvania legislatures. At the time of the printing of this pamphlet, he was chairman of the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence which adopted the three papers which appear in this work. "They state the principles upon which the colonies based their claim to redress; instructions to the Congressional delegates to be chosen by the Assembly; and a treatise on the constitutional power of Great Britain to tax the colonies." (DNB)