Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 1,041
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) The Boston Chronicle. 37 non-continuous issues. 4to, contemporary 1/4 calf, boards detached, mostly disbound; heavy dampstaining on collective title and index pages with some loss, chipping throughout with minor loss of text, tight margins. Includes Volume I collective title with contents summary on verso, 6-page volume index, weekly issues 9 (supplement only), 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20*, 21* (incomplete), 22 (supplement only), 23*, 24 (incomplete), 25*, 26, 27, 29, 30 (incomplete), 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 (incomplete), 40, 46*, 47, 48, 49, 50, and 51 (*with supplement), and extraordinary supplements dated 28 July, 17 November, and 2 December. sold as is. Boston, 15 February to 2 December 1768

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An interesting loyalist weekly newspaper. Publisher John Mein was later the target of angry Boston mobs, and was forced to flee to England. These issues include frequent pre-Revolutionary news, such as the text of the famous February 11 circular letter disseminated by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (March 28 issue), the planting of a liberty tree in Providence (August 1), and an advertisement for John Dickinson's "Liberty Song" (September 19). Brigham I:276.