(REVOLUTION.) A Collection of Interesting, Authentic Papers Relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America.

(REVOLUTION.) A Collection of Interesting, Authentic Papers Relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America. 280, [3] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf-backed boards, worn at edges, spine abraded and cracked; 1779 inscription on the front pastedown ("Judes Coffee House"); uncut; ex-library, with inked stamp on the title and several text leaves. London: J. Almon, 1777

"This volume is usually called by the name of its running head-lines, Prior Documents. It was intended to precede the first volume of the Remembrancer, and contains a collection of authentic papers on the various questions in dispute, from the resolutions of 1764, which gave rise to the Stamp Act, to the battle of Lexington, in 1775"--Church 1141; Sabin 951; Howes A179; Adams, Controversy 77-13.

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