[Rarebooks] The Canadian Freeholder: A Dialogue 1776 - 1779 3 vol.

[Duncan McLaren]

Extremely scarce in the first edition, first issue of volume 1

The Canadian Freeholder: A Dialogue
Published in 1776 - 79 by	London B. White London. Three Volumes.	
3 vol. 483; xxii, 404; xlii, [399]-810pp. Half titles. Our set  
includes the first state of the first volume title page stating '' a  
dialogue showing the sentiments of the bulk of the Freeholders of  
Canada... etc'', the second and third volumes stating '' in three  
dialogues’’.  Old Full tree calf, gilt spine bands, red Moroccan spine  
labels, rebacked. Internally very good. Previous owner’s bookplate. .  
Brown edges to perimeters of the first few pages of all three sets  
Vol. 3 pages xxix, xxx, and xxxii have the numbers torn (text) and  
some of these numbers are missing. Contains an account of the Boston  
Massacre. The first “Dialogue” argues for reconciliation through  
repeal of the Quebec Act and the Boston-Charter Act. The second  
examines Lord Mansfield’s argument on the power of the Crown to tax  
and makes laws for the Colonies. The third offers Baron Maseres’ plan  
of reconciliation, amplified from the first “Dialogue.

Provenance:
Bookplate of Isaac Hawkins Browne (1745—1818) was the only son of  
Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (1705-60).  In 1790, he opened coal mines  
on his estate and leased enough land in Old Park to enable Thomas  
Botfield to build the Old Park ironworks there. Browne was one of the  
members of Parliament for Bridgnorth from 1784 to 1812, supporting the  
ministries of William Pitt the younger, Henry Addington, the Duke of  
Portland, and Spencer Perceval.
”Lande 615, Dionne II 825. Gagnon I 658  TPL 521 . Sabin  
45412.__Maseres "

MASERES, Francis (1731 - 1824)
London-born and Cambridge educated, became Attorney General of Quebec,  
1766-1769 and his intention with the Freeholder was to convey to the  
public a true representation of the sentiments of the French or  
Canadian inhabitants of the Province concerning the Quebec Act, and  
likewise to suggest some reasons for repealing not only that obnoxious  
Act but also the Act for altering the Charter of Massachusett's  Bay.  
The dialogue gives a good example of the sentiments of both Canadians  
and Americans towards those 2 Acts of Parliament. This dialogue,  
published covering three years between a British gentleman and a  
Catholic Canadian freeholder, talks about the political concerns of  
the American colonies.  Maseres was one of the strongest Whig friends  
of the American colonies during the time of the Revolution.
$7.900 Cdn           LDRB Item # 0873	


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Thank you
Duncan McLaren

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