Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The conduct of the late administration examined. With an appendix, containing original and authentic documents.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1658
2014-0731N
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1g05fn80q
Publisher
London, Printed for J. Almon, 1767.
Language
English
Date Created
1767
Extent
160, [2], liv, [2] p. 21 cm.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Annie Rhodes Gulick and Alexander Reading Gulick Memorial Fund; 1960.
References
ESTC T31156
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Half title: The conduct of the late administration examined from July, 1765 to March, 1766. Price Three shillings and Six pence in boards.
Anonymous. By Charles Lloyd.
Charles Lloyd was secretary to George Grenville, and the authorship is attributed to him by Halkett and Laing (Dict.), Cushing (Anonyms), Winsor (Narr. & crit. hist.), British museum Catalogue, and Dictionary of national biography which adds that "much of this pamphlet ... was dictated by Grenville himself." W. J. Smith, editor of "The Grenville papers," maintains that Lord Temple was the author, while the Earl of Liverpool is mentioned by others.
Princeton copy 1 Armorial bookplate of "John Conyers Esq. Copt Hall. Essex." on front pastedown.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy: Tan and gray paper covered boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Great Britain—Stamp Act (1765)
Great Britain—Politics and government—1760-1820
Armorial bookplates

Physical Characteristics

File Count
225

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d6c812fd-69c6-4da2-9316-cd90e9d917c7/manifest