Search Results: politics from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Printed for R. Faulder..., 1798. 8vo, pp. [iv], 42 [43 adverts, 44 blank], disbound. Watson proposes that national taxes (he seems to shift between advocacy of an annual wealth tax or an income tax)should be increased both to pay for the war against France as well as to reduce the national debt. Over twenty editions appeared in 1798, many of them piracies, and the work provoked a number of replies. Some of his observations have an astonishing contemporary relevance: "The channels of commerce, were they open alike to the enterprize of all nations, are so numerous and copious in the four quarter of the globe, that the industry of all the manufacturers in Europe might be fully employed in supplying them." Kress 3754, citing the Dublin edition in the same year as the first edition.

London: Printed for H. Goreham..., 1739. 8vo (in 4s), pp 63 [64 blank], tilte-page and last blank page soiled, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy.

London: Printed for A. Moore..., 1730. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 51 [52 blank], disbound. Another edition of 32 pages was published in the same year, but it is not clear which has precedence. Bolingbroke suspected that the French were rebuilding the harbour of Dunkirk and re-fortifying it, in contravention of the Treaty of Utrecht: "The case of Dunkirk certainly rattled many independent backbenchers. To weaken their attachment to the opposition Walpole made great play of Bolingbroke's clandestine and suspicious role in bringing on the whole debate. He succeeded in turning the debate into a discussion on Bolingbroke's past conduct and he managed to discredit the opposition's legitimate criticism of ministerial negligence. Bolingbroke tried in vain to recover lost ground by writing The Case of Dunkirk Faithfully Stated and Impartially Considered (1730), and followed this up with a justification of his own conduct" (Oxford DNB). Goldsmiths' 6825.

[No Place] Printed in the Year 1756. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 192 x 120 mms., pp. 15, [1], later plain grey wrappers; title spotted, tear on verso of last leaf neatly repaired. This copy, with a manuscript letter from the chief figure behind the book, explains the fuller context of this well-recorded anti-Jacobite publication from 1756. The ESTC (T106589) finds no copies with a similar MS letter or any other kind of MS letter. One copy listed in the ESTC, however, the one at the British Library, is known to have a MS annotation that suggested it, too, arrived to its recipient accompanied by a MS letter at the time: that recipient's annotation reads in part, "Rec. Mar. 3. 1756 at London from Edinburgh / inclosed in a Letter dat. Feb. 24. 1756 & signed the / Friend of Liberty". Then, in square brackets, the recipient adds that "this paper", meaning, presumably, the printed pamphlet itself, and "ye letter" were "wrote by Peters", the… Read More

London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 5 - 53 [54 blank]. BOUND WITH: The Natural Probability of a Lasting Peace in Europe; Shewn from the Circumstances of the Great Powers, as they are now situated; compared with the State of Affairs when the Treaties of Ryswick and Utrecht were severally concluded. London: Printed for J. Peele..., 1732. 8vo (in 4s), pp. xviii, 22, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy.

London: Printed for W. Sandby..., 1760. 8vo, 197 x 116 mms., pp. xii, 320 [321 Errata, 322 blank], many leaves foxed or slightly soiled, bound in revolting 19th century plum calf, hard morocco boards, with spine worn and wormed, but happily with the autograph of the painter Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) on the top margin of the title-page, with Lyttelton's authorship inscribed in a contemporary hand below the title, "By ye right Honble Lord Littleton"; and on the front paste-down end-paper, the bookplate of the "Dundee Free Libary," printed on pink paper, which flourish in the mid 19th century. Finally, on page 273, the first page of Dialogue XXV is a note in a contemporary hand concerning Archibald, Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine, one of the two interlocutors of that dialogue. politics Writing to Horace Mann on 24 May 1760, Horace Walpole said of this work that is was "paltry enough; the style, a mixture of bombast, poetry and vulgarisms. Nothing new in the… Read More

London: Printed, and Sold by James Roberts..., 1727. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 112, disbound; title-page a bit soiled. Sabin 32280. Goldsmiths' 6501.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1754. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 240 x 195 mms., pp 7 [8 blank], 19th century marbled wrappers; leaves very closely trimmed with lost of upper portion of "The" in top margin of title-page, as well as second line of imprint in lower margin. The fable of Jotham is recounted in Judges 9, 7-15, where Jotham mocks the choice of Abimelech as king. In this instance, two merchants are invited to stand for a borough in Cornwall and pass an instructive evening in Exeter.

London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 32. BOUND WITH: [PULTENEY (William), Earl of Bath]: An Answer to One Part of a late Infamous Libel, Intitled, Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication of his two honourable Patrons; In which the Character and Conduct of Mr P. is fully Vindicated. London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 62. BOUND WITH: [ARNALL (William)]: Observations on a Pamphlet, Intitled, An Answer to one Part of a late Infamous Libel, &c. In a Letter to Mr P. London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 50. 3 volumes in 1, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. In 1730 - 1731, Bolingbroke contributed 24 essays to The Craftsman (edited by Nicholas Amhurst and one of most outspoken periodicals against Walpole's government), which later formed his Remarks on the History of England. Francklin, the publisher, had been brought to trial in… Read More

London: Printed for B. White..., and T. Cadell..., 1779. Tall 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 160, including half-title, uncut, recently rebound in quarter calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, morocco label, marbled boards; some soiling of and slight wear edges, fore-margin of half-title slightly frayed. This work by William Eden, later Baron Auckland (1744 - 1814) was published in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London in 1779, and a third edition followed in 1780, with a fifth letter on population added. He sent a copy of the first edition to Edmund Burke on the day of publication, saying that "this glorious Country, tho now in imminent Danger, has ample Possibilities for a Recovery."

London: Printed for J. Morphew..., 1714. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 72, disbound. The work is variously attributed to William Pittis and/or Francis Atterbury, who is represented here as the Mitre, and Simon Harcourt, the Lord Chancellor as the Purse. It is a reply to Defoe's pamphlet Secret History of the White Staff.

London: Printed for J. Wright..., 1798. 8vo, pp. 92, disbound; Scotch tape over spine in four places, affecting title-page and last page of text about a half inch each time.

London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 68. BOUND WITH: A Proper Reply to Mr. P-----'s Answer. London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 32. 2 pamphlets in one volume, bound in recent cream goatskin. The author of the Letter to Mr. P** is not identified, but he is replying to Pulteney's An answer to one part of a late infamous libel intitled Remarks on the Craftsman's vindication of his two honourable patrons .. in a letter to the most noble author. The second work is also by the same (unknown) author, though "noble author" suggests that Pulteney, the Earl of Bath, knew who he was. The controversy was a dispute between Walpole and Pulteney, and Walpole was so enraged with Pulteney's work that he ordered the printer to be arrested..

London: Printed for John Stockdale..., 1789. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 88, library buckram; ex-library (John Crerar), with library bookplate on front paste-down end-paper and library perforations in title-page. This was Combe's first party political pamphlet, and to judge from the number of editions published, it was very successful. He is, of course, better known as the author of the Dr. Syntax tours.

Boston : Printed by Russell and Cutler..., 1802. FIRST EDITION. Large 12mo, pp. 152, including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, black leather label; small piece cut from upper right-hand corner of title-page, front joint cracked, rear joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, binding a bit dried. The work is also attributed to Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and is notable for its attack on republicanism as well as Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin.

A Cologne [sic, for Rotterdam] Chez Pierre Mateau [probably printed in Rotterdam by Fritsch and Böhm], 1711. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Slim 8vo, 180 x 112 mms., pp. [ii], 69 [70 blank], title-page in red and black, later speckled boards; front hinge cracked at title-page, spine a bit worn. This is a translation of A Letter to Sir J--- B---, by Birth a S---, but Naturaliz'd, and Now a M---r of the P----t: Concerning the late Minehead Doctrine. The English version was first published as The History or Present State of Sweden; in a Letter to Sir J--- B----. ODNB states that Benson (1682 - 1754), a Whig politician "published a letter attacking the tory MP Sir Jacob Bankes for advocating passive obedience to monarchs. Bankes was of Swedish birth; Benson depicted the miseries of the Swedes after their liberties were surrendered to arbitrary power; the Swedish ambassador protested; Benson was summoned before the privy council but not prosecuted. It was said that his pamphlet sold 100,000… Read More

London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xvi, 64, disbound.

London: Printed by W. Wilkins, and Sold by J. Roberts..., 1715. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 37 [38 - 39 "Tracts Written by the Same Author," 40 blank], including half-title (soiled and dusty), disbound; verso of last leaf soiled and almost detached.

London, Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 61 [62 blank], disbound; a little dust-soiled.

London: Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 29 [30 blank], 23 [24 blank], occasional annotation in pencil, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. The Treaty of Seville, signed on 9 November 1929, had the effect, among others, of making it extremely difficult for Jacobites to expect assistance for their cause from Britain's nearest continental neighbours.