[Rarebooks] fs: Anthony Haswell, Patriot Printer 1/300 copies

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

ANTHONY HASWELL. PRINTER - PATRIOT - BALLADER.
A Biographical Study with a selection of his ballads and
an annotated bibliographical list of his imprints.

By John Spargo.
Rutland; The Tuttle Company: 1925.
Edition limited to 300 signed copies.

The story of one of Vermont's most colorful patriots and printers. Frankly, 
taking account of the tale of woe Spargo recites in his Foreword, it is a 
blessing we know anything about Haswell at all, as at various times his 
carefully assembled papers were lost, dispersed, burnt and otherwise 
destroyed.

Born in Portsmouth, England in 1756, Haswell came to America as a boy and 
at the age of twelve was apprenticed in the soon-to-be-radical town of 
Boston, Massachusetts, where he promptly fell in with the wrong crowd and 
found himself a "Son of Liberty" at age fourteen, and in 1773, as a lad of 
seventeen, he helped throw the tea into Boston harbor at the "Boston Tea 
Party". He served with Washington's army during the Revolution, and then 
moved to Bennington, Vermont, where he established the Vermont Gazette in 
1783. Soldier, newspaperman, writer, balladeer...

Haswell also had a talent for making trouble, and in 1800 he was tried 
under the Sedition Act for passages which he had printed in his paper. A 
hostile judge more or less told the jury to convict him, and Haswell was 
found guilty and imprisoned for two months. During his stay in stir he 
issued frequent letters, which were used against the Federalists in the 
campaign of 1800. Finding himself treated as a hero upon his release, he 
celebrated by composing a few new ballads. Ah well... This study began as a 
simple bibliography of his works, which it remains, but expanded to include 
much more biographical and bibliographical material.

Hardcover. 10"x13", xv + 293 pages, plus 35 b/w plates. Rebound in new 
cloth with new endpapers; covers fine, contents near fine. [03585] $250.00


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