Fifteen Discourses Upon Doctrinal, Connected Subjects with practical Improvements, Viz. Recapitulation and Reflections relative to the Whole

Mellen, John

Published by Printed by Edges and Gill, 1765

About this Item

In good condition. Boards are typically worn with light scuffing, rounded corners. Beginning stages of red rot with light surface staining and abrasions. Six compartment spine with raised bands. Presented to the Hudson Historical Society… by Aturhur Haskell Durst June 1917 Phineas Haskell Marlborough Middlesex City, Massachusetts, February 1st, 1831 on front fly leaf. Gutter shaken. Interior toned with light staining and foxing. Free of marginalia throughout. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Colonial American Imprint. Benjamin Edes was a journalist and political agitator. He is best known, along with John Gill, as the publisher of the Boston Gazette, a newspaper which sparked and financed the Boston Tea Party and was influential during the American Revolutionary War. Edes was part of The Sons of Liberty, a secret society of American patriots in Revolutionary America. Governor Bernard advised the arrest of both Edes and Gill as publishers of sedition. Edes fought British policy through written attacks on the Stamp Act, the tea tax, the Townsend Acts and other oppressive measures. During the Siege of Boston, Edes escaped to Watertown, Massachusetts where he continued to publish the Gazette until 1798, 43 years after he started.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fifteen Discourses Upon Doctrinal, Connected Subjects with practical Improvements, Viz. Recapitulation and Reflections relative to the Whole
• Publisher: Printed by Edges and Gill
• Publication Date: 1765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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