Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
E.D. CHURCH'S COPY (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) V--, Mary V. A Dialogue between a Southern Delegate, and his Spouse, on his Return from the Grand Continental Congress. 14 pages. 12mo, later polished calf by Riach; bookplate removed from front free endpaper, tightly trimmed affecting one page number, lacking final blank; inked stamp in front free endpaper notes that binding was done for H. Stevens in 1883. [New York?]: 1774

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"A rather witty Tory poem in which the wife berates her husband for the aggressive measures taken against England at the first Continental Congress"--Streeter sale II:757. Sometimes mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Church 1114 (this copy); Evans 13245; Sabin 19933.