Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A declaration of the people's natural right to a share in the legislature : which is the fundamental principle of the British constitution of state / By Granville Sharp.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1976
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9019sc75x
Publisher
London: Printed for B. White, 1774.
Language
English
Date Created
1774
Extent
[4], 32 pages ; 20 cm (8vo).
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
Sabin, 79810
ESTC N478071
Adams, T.R. Brit. pamphlets, 74-72a
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 139a
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With a half title.
Only part of the work.
"Includes only one passing indirect reference to the American problem"--Adams.
Remaining sheets of this pamphlet were later reissued with a new preface, an "Extract of a letter on the foregoing subject to a friend in America ...", and "A declaration ... Part II" (the last particularly concerning Ireland); see Adams 74-72b.
Dated at end: Old-Jewry, London, 25 June 1774.
Collation: [A]² B-E⁴ [$2 signed]; 18 leaves, pp. [4 unn.] 1-32.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Disbound; untrimmed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Constitutional law—Great Britain—Colonies—Early works to 1800
Representative government and representation—Great Britain—Early works to 1800
Great Britain—Politics and government

Physical Characteristics

File Count
37

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0b4647a8-ef6f-47ab-8094-e7acf6755388/manifest