Vindication Randolphs Resignation: First Edition (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 71 pp + [1] publisher's ads. Disbound from a larger volume, else fine. Cobbett attacks Edmund Randolph, who had resigned as George Washington's Secretary of State after an accusation (unproven) that he had accepted a bribe from France to oppose a 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Sabin 13896. Scarce in the first edition.…

First edition. First edition. 103pp. Without the half title. Errata bound in following the title. 8vo. Randolph was appointed Washington's attorney general, then secretary of state after Jefferson's retirement from that office. He resigned from Washington's cabinet after being implicated in French intrigue, and published the present pamphlet in self-defense. Howes R55; Evans 29385; Sabin 67817 Later morocco backed cloth boards, worn at joints 103pp. Without the half title. Errata bound in following the title. 8vo.…

[RANDOLPH, Edmund]. A Vindication of Mr. Randolph's Resignation. Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel H. Smith, 1795. 1st ed. 1st issue. 8vo. 103, [1] pp. Disbound. Light foxing/toning. Small loss to the fore-edge margin of the last leaf, with loss of a few words, else very good. Evans 29384. Howes R-55. Howes notes, "The author had resigned from Washington's cabinet under fire, suspected of aiding French intrigue." It would come to light nearly a century later that those charges were unfounded. There are two states of this, the first, as here, without the "Extract of a letter from Mr. Randolph to the printer" on the errata leaf. The second state contains the extract on that leaf and several pages have been reset. …