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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Three volumes of The Monthly Review, Or Literary Journal with revolutionary content

Catalogue: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]  Three volumes of The Monthly Review, Or Literary Journal with revolutionary content

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Lot 241
[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Three volumes of The Monthly Review, Or Literary Journal with revolutionary content
. Comprising volumes LIV (Jan-June 1776); LV (July-Dec, 1776); and LVIII (Jan-June 1778). Each London: R. Griffiths, 1776, 1777, 1778. Three volumes. Early red morocco backed marbled boards. 8 x 4 3/4 inches (20.5 x 11.5 cm); 558, 584, 568 pp., each volume with a separate title, contents, and index. Internally clean, bindings rubbed and the spines darkened and with a few chips, bookplate of Ilam Hall.
In the earlier 1776 volume of this London periodical there are many reviews and extracts of "pamphlets related to the present commotions" in America including several pages devoted to the London edition of Paine's Common Sense. The later 1776 volume contains several pages offering an extract of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and much on the "American troubles" including a Response to the Declaration of the American Congress. The 1778 volume contains similar reviews including a poem entitled "America Lost. A Poem of Condolence." Offered with two additional volumes, Volume LXXVI & LXXVII, 1787, covering the period of the Constitutional Convention. the lot 5 volumes.


Estimate: $300 - $500
Sold for $218 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $300 - $500
Sold for $218 (includes buyer's premium)

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