MACPHERSON, James (1736-1796)

The Rights of Great Britain Asserted Against the Claims of America: being an Answer to the Declaration of the General Congress

London: T. Cadell, 1776 (ninth edition). 8vo. (4), 131 pp., (1).

Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia over 18th-century marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt fillets and roll tools, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt

An important political tract, replying to the American Congress' "Declaration... setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms," which is printed in the rear of the pamphlet. Authorship of this work is in doubt, Adams crediting James Macpherson, who was retained by Lord North as a political writer, and Howes crediting Sir John Dalrymple. The pamphlet, which was widely disseminated, sets forth the ministerial position on the situation in America. One of the most widely circulated pamphlets of the English side of the debate.

Adams, American Controversy 75-95a. Howes D37. Revolutionary Hundred 37 (refers). ESTC N12881; Sabin 27145.

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