Taxation no Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
[JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784]
Published by Printed for T. Cadell, London, 1775
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[4], 91pp. Half title. Bound to style in half calf and marbled paper covered boards. One of the most famous pamphlets of the Revolution. Second edition, published the same year as the first, of this famous political pamphlet by lexicographer Samuel Johnson. This edition includes a number of textual changes from the first, and is also easily distinguished from the first by differing press marks. Written in response to the opening rumblings of the American Revolution, Johnson's acerbic pamphlet was published at the height of his popularity and fame. He writes of the Americans: "That it is their duty to pay the cost of their own safety they seem to admit; nor do they refuse their contribution to the exigencies, whatever they may be, of the British empire; but they make this participation of the public burden a duty of very uncertain extent, and imperfect obligation, a duty temporary, occasional and elective, of which they reserve to themselves the right of settling the degree, the time, and the duration, of judging when it may be required, and when it has been performed." This pamphlet elicited many responses, and doubtless further spurred the cause of the Revolution. ESTC T141339; Sabin 36303; American Controversy 75-69b; Courtney & Smith, p.125; Reese, Revolutionary Hundred 26. Seller Inventory # 37761
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Title: Taxation no Tyranny; An Answer to the ...
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell, London
Publication Date: 1775
Binding: 8vo
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Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
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8vo, 20cm, Second Edition, [1]-91p., modern paper over boards, printed paper spine label, wanting half title, occasional light foxing but mainly on the first 3 leaves. The pressmarks in this copy are identical to those cited in Adams 75-69b (i.e. the second edition). (cgc). Adams 75-69b. Sabin 35303. This is the second of four editions published in 1775, all with a number of textual differences. Johnson penned this rather cynical pamphlet in response to the murmurings and rumblings of the American Revolution. It was published at the height of his popularity and subsequently became extremely popular, with four editions issued in short order in 1775. It was a defence of the Coercive Acts (or Intolerable Acts, as they were known in America) of 1774, and a response to the Declaration of Rights issued by the First Continental Congress, which had pretested against taxation without representation. Seller Inventory # 40396
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