William Smith | An Answer to Mr. Franklin's Remarks on a Late Protest

William Smith

An Answer to Mr. Franklin's Remarks on a Late Protest. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Bradford, at his Book-Store, in Market-Street, adjoining the London-Coffee-House, M.DCC.LXIV (1764)

8vo (187 x 116 mm). Ornamental headpiece; title's inner margin reinforced, marginal chips, a few checkmarks to margins, ink stains to leaf B2, toned with a few stray stains and foxing throughout, lacking final blank. Modern half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, black gilt-lettered spine label, grey endpapers. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase and folding chemise.

First edition—Sabin's state B, with two lines of text below "protestors" on page 3 and the Churchill reference on page 21.

One installment in a controversial printed debate between Franklin and his fellow Pennsylvanians. On 1 November 1764, the Pennsylvania Journal published a Protest signed by John Dickinson and nine others against the General Assembly's decision to appoint Franklin as agent of the province in England. Franklin then published a reply, Remarks on a Late Protest, to which the present lot was a response.

REFERENCES

ESTC W11639; Evans 9841; Hildeburn 1952; Sabin 84586