[Rarebooks] FS: Letter to The Right Honourable The Earl of Hillsborough on the Present Situation of Affairs in America, WITH An Appendix in Answer to a Pamphlet Intituled The Constitutional Right of Great-Britain to Tax the Colonies (1769) Re: The Stamp Act

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 Ezra from Aardvark offers two copies of an important letter addressing economic oppressions levied upon
the American colonists by Great Britain. In order to extract itself from debts incurred from the Seven Years War, the British Parliament imposed a direct tax upon American colonists. The Stamp Act, set to begin in the fall of 1765, stated that all legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. This law applied not only to official documents such as wills and deeds, but extended to newspapers, pamphlets and even playing cards and dice…” Further, a provision of the act stated that violators would not be eligible for a trial by jury. ..After vocal and at times violent colonial resistance to the Act, it was repealed in 1766. However, the Stamp Act was supplanted by The Declaratory Act, which essentially reaffirmed presumptions that the British Parliament wielded the power to pass
any laws regarding the colonists, which they so desired. The issues evinced by these acts simmered for ten years and had much to do with the events comprising the American Revolution.  (in part, from History Dot Calm 11/09/09)


A Letter to The Right Honourable The Earl of Hillsborough on the Present Situation of Affairs in America
    ALSO
An Appendix in Answer to a Pamphlet Intituled The Constitutional Right of Great-Britain to Tax the Colonies.


This letter has commonly been attributed to Samuel Adams but Hutchinson (History of Massachusetts) believes it was James Bowdoin. The Appendix is sometimes attributed to George Canning, Sr.


	Two copies for sale

	Both the 1769 London reprinting of the Boston original 1769  (Evans 11310; Sabin 31912) and sold by Edes and Gill,
        in Queen Street

	Both copies missing title page.

	The first copy, ("Copy A") generally the better condition copy, but, missing signature G comprising pp. 49 through 55.
          										$2500
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The second copy ( "Copy B") while also lacking a title page  (here, supplied with a manuscript facsimile)is complete, but for missing title page. The first leaf shows
uneven-edges, spotting and toning; remainder shows light toning throughout
											$4500

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Link to the picture of first two pages of the incomplete copy (Copy “A”) AND every page of the complete copy --  Copy ("B").
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