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PAMPHLETS, 18TH-CENTURY -- A collection of 10 works, 8°, in one vol., contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (covers worn), comprising:
a) JACKSON, William (Rev.). Observations in Answer to Mr. Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" by ... now a prisoner in the New-Prison, Dublin, London, for J. Ridgway, 1795, FIRST LONDON EDITION. RARE. ESTC lists only the Dublin edition of the same year.
b) Speculations on the Establishment of an Uniform Tenure of Land and an Equalization of the Territorial Taxes, London, for J. Johnson, 1795, FIRST EDITION, half title.
c) WORKMAN, James. An Argument against continuing the War, London, for J. Owen and V. Griffiths, 1795, second edition (some corners creased). RARE. ESTC records one copy of the first and two of the second edition.
d) A Plain Statement of the Case relating to the Intended Establishment of the Prince of Wales, London, for T.N. Longman, 1795, FIRST EDITION (half title soiled).
e) BURKE, Edmund. A Letter ... to a Noble Lord on the Attacks made upon Him and His Pension, London, for T. Williams, 1796, second edition (some corners creased). A Noble Lord = Earl Fitzwilliam. [Todd 65a]
f) MILES, William. A Letter to Henry Duncombe on the subject of the very extraordinary Pamphlet lately addressed by Mr. Burke to a Noble Lord, London, for J. Debrett, 1796, second edition.
g) A Cursory View of the Transactions of the 13th Vendemiaire (5th Oct. 1795) and of Their Effects, London, for T.N. Longman, 1796, FIRST EDITION. RARE. ESTC records 2 copies in North America, none in Britain.
h) [COBBETT, William.] pseudonym Peter PORCUPINE. A Letter to the Infamous Tom Paine in Answer to His Letter to General Washington, Philadelphia printed, London reprinted, for David Ogilvy and Son, 1797, FIRST LONDON EDITION, half title.
i) A Letter to John Gifford Esq. containing strictures on the tendency of his writing in general and of his letter to the Hon. Thomas Erskine in particular, London, for R. Crosby and C. Chapple, 1797, FIRST EDITION (title ink-stained), with final blank and 2ll. advertisements for J.S. Jordan's new publications not called for by ESTC which list 4 copies, all in North America.
j) EVANS, John. An Attempt to Account for the Infidelity of the Late Edward Gibbon, Esq., founded on his own Memoirs, London, for T.N. Longman, and sold by J. Cottle, [1797], FIRST EDITION.
a) JACKSON, William (Rev.). Observations in Answer to Mr. Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" by ... now a prisoner in the New-Prison, Dublin, London, for J. Ridgway, 1795, FIRST LONDON EDITION. RARE. ESTC lists only the Dublin edition of the same year.
b) Speculations on the Establishment of an Uniform Tenure of Land and an Equalization of the Territorial Taxes, London, for J. Johnson, 1795, FIRST EDITION, half title.
c) WORKMAN, James. An Argument against continuing the War, London, for J. Owen and V. Griffiths, 1795, second edition (some corners creased). RARE. ESTC records one copy of the first and two of the second edition.
d) A Plain Statement of the Case relating to the Intended Establishment of the Prince of Wales, London, for T.N. Longman, 1795, FIRST EDITION (half title soiled).
e) BURKE, Edmund. A Letter ... to a Noble Lord on the Attacks made upon Him and His Pension, London, for T. Williams, 1796, second edition (some corners creased). A Noble Lord = Earl Fitzwilliam. [Todd 65a]
f) MILES, William. A Letter to Henry Duncombe on the subject of the very extraordinary Pamphlet lately addressed by Mr. Burke to a Noble Lord, London, for J. Debrett, 1796, second edition.
g) A Cursory View of the Transactions of the 13th Vendemiaire (5th Oct. 1795) and of Their Effects, London, for T.N. Longman, 1796, FIRST EDITION. RARE. ESTC records 2 copies in North America, none in Britain.
h) [COBBETT, William.] pseudonym Peter PORCUPINE. A Letter to the Infamous Tom Paine in Answer to His Letter to General Washington, Philadelphia printed, London reprinted, for David Ogilvy and Son, 1797, FIRST LONDON EDITION, half title.
i) A Letter to John Gifford Esq. containing strictures on the tendency of his writing in general and of his letter to the Hon. Thomas Erskine in particular, London, for R. Crosby and C. Chapple, 1797, FIRST EDITION (title ink-stained), with final blank and 2ll. advertisements for J.S. Jordan's new publications not called for by ESTC which list 4 copies, all in North America.
j) EVANS, John. An Attempt to Account for the Infidelity of the Late Edward Gibbon, Esq., founded on his own Memoirs, London, for T.N. Longman, and sold by J. Cottle, [1797], FIRST EDITION.