[Rarebooks] fa: HUMBLE ADDRESS re. THE CONTINENTAL COLONIES OF AMERICA 1776 - Josiah Tucker

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Josiah Tucker: An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to those Respectable Personages in Great Britain and Ireland, Who by their great and permanent Interest in Landed Property, their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, are the ablest to judge, and the fittest to decide, whether a Connection with, or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, be most for the National Advantage, and the lasting Benefit of these Kingdoms. The third edition, corrected. London: Printed T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXVI [1776]. Slim 8vo (19.5 cm) in modern marbled self-wraps with printed spine label; 94 + [2] pp.; with the advertisement leaf for tracts by Josiah Tucker; folding table. Adams 75-144c; Howes T385; Sabin 97350 (for the first ed.); ESTC T36740.

A strong and uncommonly bold British argument for colonial independence. While parliament was in favor of total war ending in military victory, Tucker recommends total separation from the colonies, putting himself to the left of even Edmund Burke, who favored separation, but with a commonwealth-like association. Josiah Tucker (1713-1799), Dean of Gloucester, was a liberal-minded, if not radical, churchman, economist and political writer, who also favored free trade and Jewish emancipation. He was consistently prescient in his views on America, foreseeing as early as 1749 that the American colonies would eventually seek independence from Britain, and arguing from 1766 onwards that separation was inevitable.

Browning to the title-page and last page, mild age-toning to the rest, scattered mostly light spotting and a few small touches of soiling; folding table with some spots and a tissue-repaired tear; otherwise clean and sound, firmly bound in attractive, period-appropriate modern wraps.