(REVOLUTION) [Bollan William] Continued Corruption Standing

Sale 2032 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 4,140

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

WITH THE FRONTISPIECE (REVOLUTION.) [Bollan, William.] Continued Corruption, Standing Armies, and Popular Discontents Considered. Engraved plate. 4to, modern antique-style tooled calf; offsetting from the plate onto the first text leaf. London, 1768

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A very scarce pro-American response to the passage of the Townshend duties, written by the long-time agent of the Massachusetts Council in London. The frontispiece, engraved by Bartolozzi, represents a British Lady Liberty, with an olive branch in hand. The last copy complete with the plate that we could locate at auction sold in a 1927 Heartman sale for $24. Adams, American Controversy 68-2; Howes B576; Sabin 6210.