Nov 21 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2687 -

Sale 2687 - Lot 192

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Volumes containing alternating issues of Porcupine's Gazette and Claypoole's American Advertiser. Approximately 275 issues, each 4 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, 20 x 13½ inches, laid into modern plain buckram boards; a few issues with tears and loss, outer issues worn, but generally sound; uncut. Philadelphia, January to June 1799
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Six months of daily newspaper coverage from two Philadelphia newspapers, bound in a mostly alternating pattern. Neither newspaper is in a complete run, but the great majority of issues are present for the period covered. Porcupine's Gazette was edited by William Cobbett, an ornery British exile with Federalist sympathies. Includes in-state coverage of Fries's Rebellion, a tax revolt which began in the Pennsylvania countryside in February 1799. The Quasi-War with France also receives coverage. Detailed list of issues is available.

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