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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Gavin, Antonio. A Master-Key to Popery. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; lacking rear free endpaper; Joseph May's 1775 bookplate and inscription on front free endpaper, library gift bookplate from reformer Samuel Joseph May on front pastedown, inked and perforated library stamps on title page. Newport: Solomon Southwick, 1773
first american edition after the third London edition. "Gavin acquired considerable notoriety by compiling a farrago of lies and libels, interspersed with indecent tales"--DNB. Alden, Rhode Island 513; Evans 12784.
