FRANKLIN BENJAMIN Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Sma

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FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One . . . to which is Subjoined the Declaration of Independence. Small 8vo, modern 1/2 morocco; minor foxing. London, 1793

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First separately issued edition; it first appeared in the October 1773 issue of the Public Advertiser. "Probably the cleverest political satire written by Franklin. It is a scathing review of the Ministry's methods for governing America, and is chiefly aimed at Lord Hillsborough"--Ford 314. "Here was the boldest tone Franklin had ever taken in public, and all the bolder because his hard arguments were edged with insulting irony. He talked back to the ministers, from whom he had borne too much"--Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, page 454. Sabin 25580. Provenance; Goodspeed's 1942 catalogue, 359:104. Only 8 copies in American libraries per ESTC; and only one other copy known at auction, at Swann, 22 March 2007, lot 115.