(MASSACHUSETTS) Hutchinson Thomas The History of the Colony

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GENERAL SULLIVAN'S COPY (MASSACHUSETTS.) Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay. [4], iv, 566 pages. Volume I only. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; hinges split, moderate foxing; early bookplate and inscription on front endpapers. Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, 1764

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first edition. "Ranks above all other colonial historians"--Kraus, Writing of American History, page 55. Hutchinson was a Loyalist. When his house was attacked during the Stamp Act riots, the manuscript of Volume II was thrown into the muddy streets, but was recovered and issued separately in 1767. He moved to London with the onset of the Revolution. Evans 9705; Howes H853; Sabin 34075. Provenance: General John Sullivan (1740-1795) (bookplate by Callender); his son James Sullivan (1768-1796), a 1790 graduate of Harvard (1789 inscription on front free endpaper).