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[HAMILTON, Alexander (1755-1804)]. The Farmer refuted: or, A more impartial and comprehensive view of the Dispute between Great-Britain and the Colonies, Intended as a Further Vindication of the Congress… New York: James Rivington, 1775.
8° (191 x 125 mm). (Title with a few old adhesions near gutter.) Early 20th-century black half morocco (rubbed at extremities).
FIRST EDITION OF HAMILTON’S SECOND PUBLICATION, his response to Samuel Seabury. “The pamphlet war was abruptly ended by a mob’s destruction of Rivington’s press. Ford writes: 'Samuel Seabury was suspected of being the ‘Westchester Farmer,’ and was seized by a party of ‘Regulators,’ and carried to New Haven, where he was kept in confinement and every endeavor made to induce him to confess himself the writer. They [Seabury’s writings] were by far the ablest arguments against the Whigs in America; and were not only answered by them, but copies were, with due formality, tarred and feathered, or burned, by Sons of Liberty; and Rivington’s printing office was entered, his presses broken, and his type thrown into the street.' The mob apparently did not take into consideration the fact that Rivington printed not only the Tory pamphlets of Seabury but also the Whig replies of Hamilton” (Goodspeed Cat. 539, item 65).
8° (191 x 125 mm). (Title with a few old adhesions near gutter.) Early 20th-century black half morocco (rubbed at extremities).
FIRST EDITION OF HAMILTON’S SECOND PUBLICATION, his response to Samuel Seabury. “The pamphlet war was abruptly ended by a mob’s destruction of Rivington’s press. Ford writes: 'Samuel Seabury was suspected of being the ‘Westchester Farmer,’ and was seized by a party of ‘Regulators,’ and carried to New Haven, where he was kept in confinement and every endeavor made to induce him to confess himself the writer. They [Seabury’s writings] were by far the ablest arguments against the Whigs in America; and were not only answered by them, but copies were, with due formality, tarred and feathered, or burned, by Sons of Liberty; and Rivington’s printing office was entered, his presses broken, and his type thrown into the street.' The mob apparently did not take into consideration the fact that Rivington printed not only the Tory pamphlets of Seabury but also the Whig replies of Hamilton” (Goodspeed Cat. 539, item 65).