Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BROADSIDE.) [St. John, Samuel.] American Taxation. Letterpress broadside poem containing 36 four-line stanzas with text in 2 columns. Folio; paper loss to the upper right corner not affecting text, tears in the bottom margin repaired; tissue-backed. Np, circa 1812?

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According to Evans, who examined the Boston Public Library copy, this broadside was first printed in Hartford in 1783. Bristol, however, identifies the BPL copy as a later printing. The present copy is printed on wove paper and the typeface is clearly not from the 18th-century. It seems likely that it is a patriotic piece printed during the War of 1812. Evans 18174.