[Dickinson, John] | The rights of the colonies set forth

[Dickinson, John]

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. Philadelphia: David Hall, and William Sellers, 1768

8vo (178 x 109 mm). Title with repairs to inner margin, small tear to upper right corner just affecting one letter, author given in contemporary hand, and library blindstamp, library stamp to p.3, one or two marginal chips or tears, foxed. Half calf and contemporary marbled boards; rebacked and recornered to style, rubbed.

Second Philadelphia edition of the "earliest serious study into colonial legal rights" (Howes).

REFERENCE

Adams 54b; Evans 10879; Hildeburn 2354; Howes D329; Revolutionary Hundred 9 (first edition)