(Seabury, Samuel) | The Congress Canvassed

(Seabury, Samuel)

The Congress Canvassed, or an Examination into the Conduct of the Delegates, at Their Grand Convention, Held in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 1774. Addressed to the Merchants of New-York. By A.W. Farmer. Author of Free Thoughts etc. [New York: Rivington, 1774]

8vo (178 x 114 mm). Light browning throughout. Modern half brown crushed morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered gilt.

First Edition. The second of Seabury’s four pamphlets published between 1774 and 1775 attacking the revolutionary measures advocated by the Continental Congress. “These tracts created a furor at the time. Seabury was mobbed and imprisoned by the Regulators and the tracts were gathered up and burned at the stake or tarred and feathered and nailed to a whipping post” (Streeter).

REFERENCE

Adams, American Independence 135a; Evans 13601; Howes S252; Revolutionary Hundred 22; Sabin 78562; cf. Streeter sale 2:755