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PLAYFAIR, William. Political Portraits, in this New Aera; with Explanatory Notes--Historical and Biographical. London: W. McDowall for C. Chapple, 1813. 2 volumes, 8o. Contemporary half calf. Provenance: Rt. Hon. George Rose (bookplates). FIRST EDITION.
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PLAYFAIR, William. The History of Jacobinism, Its Crimes, Cruelties and Perfidies...with and Appendix by Peter Porcupine, Containing a History of the American Jacobins, commonly denominated Democrats. Philadelphia: for William Cobbett, 1796. 2 volumes, 8o. (Some marginal spotting and pale staining.) Contemporary half calf. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The appendix at the end of the second volume was written by William Cobbett ("Peter Porcupine"), a British journalist who came to Philadelphia in 1792 to advocate the cause of the Federalist Party, and under the pseudonym "Peter Porcupine" wrote a series of powerful pamphlets in which the French Revolutionists and their sympathizers were severely criticized. Evans 30209 (appendix); Sabin 63374. (4)
[With]
PLAYFAIR, William. The History of Jacobinism, Its Crimes, Cruelties and Perfidies...with and Appendix by Peter Porcupine, Containing a History of the American Jacobins, commonly denominated Democrats. Philadelphia: for William Cobbett, 1796. 2 volumes, 8o. (Some marginal spotting and pale staining.) Contemporary half calf. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The appendix at the end of the second volume was written by William Cobbett ("Peter Porcupine"), a British journalist who came to Philadelphia in 1792 to advocate the cause of the Federalist Party, and under the pseudonym "Peter Porcupine" wrote a series of powerful pamphlets in which the French Revolutionists and their sympathizers were severely criticized. Evans 30209 (appendix); Sabin 63374. (4)