[ROBINSON, Matthew, Baron Rokeby].

Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British

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[ROBINSON, Matthew, Baron Rokeby]. Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North-America. London: Printed. Boston: Re-printed: Edes and Gill, 1774. 8vo 63. [1]pp. Period-style 3/4 maroon morocco calf and marbled boards, raised spine bands. Pages age-toned; three leaves with minor staining. Uniformly tanned. Small tear in lower outer corner of leaf D1, affecting one word. Very good. Untrimmed. Evans 13584. HOWES R-372. American Independence 134h. Sabin 72152. One of five American editions appearing in 1774, following the London first of the same year, of this important polemic. The second Baron Rokeby was a politician and champion of civil liberties who published several pamphlets opposing Lord North's American policy; Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography notes that "the measures for the coercion of the American colonies were especially repugnant to his sense of justice" (V, 287). As supportive as he was of the American cause, Robinson-Morris was also critical of Dr. Franklin, whose inflammatory writings are here compared to Fawke's gunpowder.

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