[GALLOWAY, Joseph] Plain Truth: or a letter to the author of Dispassionate Thoughts on the American War, London: for J. Wilkie, 1780, 8°, FIRST EDITION (lacking half title) [Sabin 26440] [bound with the same author's:] Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Revolution, London: for G. Wilkie, 1780, 8°, FIRST EDITION [Sabin 26431], the 2 works bound in one volume with 3 other pamphlets by Galloway.

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[GALLOWAY, Joseph] Plain Truth: or a letter to the author of Dispassionate Thoughts on the American War, London: for J. Wilkie, 1780, 8°, FIRST EDITION (lacking half title) [Sabin 26440] [bound with the same author's:] Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Revolution, London: for G. Wilkie, 1780, 8°, FIRST EDITION [Sabin 26431], the 2 works bound in one volume with 3 other pamphlets by Galloway.

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Joseph Galloway (1730-1803) was an American lawyer and politician who became speaker in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. At the beginning of the rebellion he was elected a member of the first congress in 1774 and submitted a controversial plan for establishing a political union between Great Britain and the colonies. In 1778 he left America for England, where he lived the remainder of his life.

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