Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Porteus, Beilby. A Review of the Life and Character of Archbishop Secker. [1], iii, [1], lxviii, xx, 28, xii, 122, [2] pages. 8vo, later 1/2 morocco, moderate wear; with half-title, minimal marginal annotations in pencil; bookplate on front pastedown. New York, 1773

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first american edition. Bound with: [Thomas B. Chandler] An Appendix to the American Edition of the Life of Archbishop Secker. New York, 1774 (as usual) and Thomas B. Chandler. A Free Examiniation of the Critical Commentary on Archbishop Secker's Letter to Mr. Walpole. New York, 1774.
All three works are on Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose push for an American episcopate was controversial in the colonies. Evans 12960, 13192, 13193; Sabin 64328, 11877, 11878.