1784 · Boston
by Price, Richard
Boston: Powars and Willis, 1784. 87, [1] pp. Page 64 is numbered correctly. Disbound with minor wear, else Very Good. Housed in an attractive, modern folding case. Very Good.
We offer the first American edition of this influential piece. It first issued from London earlier in 1784. Price, a British friend of the Revolution, endorsed the American cause for opening "a new prospect in human affairs, and a new aera in the history of mankind."
Chapters discuss civil and religious liberty, freedom of expression, education, rights to acquire and hold property, banks and public credit, and slavery. A long letter from the French economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, supporting Price's conclusions, appears as an appendix.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Howes P585. Evans 18739. Sabin 65449. ESTC W21332. (Inventory #: 40211)
We offer the first American edition of this influential piece. It first issued from London earlier in 1784. Price, a British friend of the Revolution, endorsed the American cause for opening "a new prospect in human affairs, and a new aera in the history of mankind."
Chapters discuss civil and religious liberty, freedom of expression, education, rights to acquire and hold property, banks and public credit, and slavery. A long letter from the French economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, supporting Price's conclusions, appears as an appendix.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Howes P585. Evans 18739. Sabin 65449. ESTC W21332. (Inventory #: 40211)
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