[Rarebooks] FS: Dickinson's LETTERS FROM A FARMER IN PENNSYLVANIA, 1768

[Charles Agvent]

[DICKINSON, John]. [LETTERS FROM A FARMER IN PENNSYLVANIA, TO THE 
INHABITANTS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES]. [Philadelphia]: [David Hall, and 
William Sellers], [1768]. Second Edition. Stitched wraps, the original 
cover present with the rear lacking; 3 - 71, [1] pages. Lacking the 
title page with a photocopy of it bound in. The exceptionally scarce 
First Edition was published in March, and this Second Edition, very 
scarce in its own right, in June. EVANS 10875; HOWES D-329: "Earliest 
serious study into colonial legal rights"; SABIN 20044. Dickinson was a 
leading voice against British Parliamentary acts that imposed a tax on 
items by requiring the purchase of a stamp. He argued that these various 
acts were intended to raise revenue, a power held only by the colonial 
assemblies. As a direct result of the popularity of Dickinson’s letters, 
widely read throughout the Thirteen Colonies as well as in Europe, there 
were calls and petitions for the boycotting of imported goods throughout 
the colonies. The eventual result of this unity amongst the colonies 
against a common enemy was the First Continental Congress. Housed in a 
cloth folding case with a gilt-stamped brown morocco spine label. Title 
page lacking and replaced by a modern photocopy; “Fahnestock Bequest 
1869” embossed stamp on the first page of text; early owner signatures 
on the top blank margin of two text pages; closed tear with no loss to 
margin of another page; even browning to text. Overall, despite the 
missing title page, a Very Good example of this scarce and important 
piece of Americana. (#020427)        $3,000

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