THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN: OR, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE ABUSES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AMERICA.THE WHOLE TENDING TO PROVE THE RUINOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE POPULAR SYSTEM OF TAXATION, WAR, AND CONQUEST
Callender, James T.
Verlag: Philadelphia, 1795
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120pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor soiling to outer leaves, some light scattered foxing. Very good. A broad attack on Great Britain and all of her policies, by this rabid politician and Republican. The titlepage styles this both "Third edition" and "Part the First" - both statements are misleading. An edition was published in Edinburgh in 1792, but the text was considerably rewritten and expanded, resulting in an edition in 1794 and this third edition in 1795. Callender's publication of this work landed him in prison for sedition in 1793. He is famous for his scandal mongering upon arrival in America, two of his favorite targets being Hamilton and Jefferson. Callender's unscrupulous behavior was halted one day when, in a drunken stupor, he drowned in three feet of water in the James River. EVANS 28379. ESTC W28930. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM44847
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Verlag: Philadelphia
Erscheinungsdatum: 1795
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THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN; OR, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF ABUSES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AMERICA. FROM THE REVOLUTION IN 1688, TO THE PRESENT TIME. THE WHOLE TENDING TO PROVE THE RUINOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE POPULAR SYSTEM OF TAXATION, WAR, AND CONQUEST
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Daniel Isaac Eaton, Printer and Bookseller to the Supreme Majesty of the People, at the Cock and Swine, London, England, 1795
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Third edition. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.25 in., pp. 156. First complete edition (first published as pamphlet in 1792). Rebound in brown cloth boards. Gilt title on red panel, and gilt bandlines, to spine. Newer endpapers. Unmarked: pages are bright. James Thomson Callender (1758 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and later, also in the United States. He was not given a formal education but secured employment as a sub-clerk in the Edinburgh Sasine office, the equivalent of the Recorder of Deeds. While working in that office, Callender published satirical pamphlets criticizing the writer Samuel Johnson. "Deformities of Samuel Johnson", published anonymously, appealed to Scottish sentiments. Later he wrote pamphlets attacking political corruption. Callender's political writings were tinged with radical democratic egalitarianism, Scottish nationalism, and a pessimistic view of human nature. An admirer of Jonathan Swift, Callender sought to cut the wealthy and the powerful down to size in his writing. . In 1792 he published The Political Progress of Britain, a critique of war, imperialism, and corruption. He fled to Ireland and to the United States to avoid prosecution. After Callender left Scotland, Lord Gardenstone exposed him as the author; the journalist's reputation also was marred by the rumor that he had implicated Gardenstone . (Later) In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. After Jefferson won the presidency, Callender solicited employment as a postmaster, which was denied by Jefferson. Callender then published existing rumors claiming President Jefferson had children with slave Sally Hemings. Subsequently, he was imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and later turned against his one-time Democratic-Republican patrons. (from Wikipedia). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 87595
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THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN; OR, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF ABUSES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AMERICA. FROM THE REVOLUTION IN 1688, TO THE PRESENT TIME. THE WHOLE TENDING TO PROVE THE RUINOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE POPULAR SYSTEM OF TAXATION, WAR, AND CONQUEST.
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London. 1795., 1795
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The first complete edition, after appearing in pamphlet form in 1792. A broad attack on Great Britain and all of her policies, by this rabid politician and Republican. Callender's publication of this work landed him in prison for sedition in 1793, and later he emigrated to America. ".The Reader is here presented with a kind of original ground-plan, of those follies and crimes of government, which laid the foundation of a British, and in particular of a Scots insurrection. This little volume forms a general introduction to the perusal of those trials at Edinburgh, for Sedition, that have been printed, and to those others, for high treason, that will possibly be soon printed in the United States" - Advertisement. SABIN 10006. GOLDSMITHS 16446. ESTC N12507. 156pp. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing and soiling. About very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44857
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