(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE) Issue of the Boston Gazette w

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Issue of the Boston Gazette with a Revere masthead and much discussion of non-importation. 4 pages, 14 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, minor foxing. Boston, 20 August 1770

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A report from Woodbridge, NJ: "They keep in Readiness in some convenient Place near the Centre of the Town . . . a sufficient Quantity of Tar and Feathers, in order to ply . . . those vile Miscreants, who . . . have perfidiously broke through the general and salutary Non-Importation Agreement." Other reports discuss non-importation activities in Hartford, Salem, Marblehead, and Newport. The 5th anniversary of the 14 August 1765 Boston protests against the Stamp Act is commemorated with toasts. Talk of liberty fills much of the paper. On a not completely unrelated note, the last item is an advertisement: "A very fine likely Negro Child to be given away; inquire of Edes & Gill" (the newspaper's publishers).

The masthead illustration is by Paul Revere, who charged 12 shillings for the work; they began using the engraving on 1 January 1770. Revere also took out an advertisement on the final page: "Artificial-teeth. Paul Revere . . . still continues the Business of a Dentist, and flatters himself that from the Experience he has had these Two Years . . . that he can fix them as well as any Surgeon Dentist who ever came from London." Provenance: bought from dealer Walter Dougherty circa 1980s.