Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A Letter to an August Assembly, The Present Posture of Affairs: wherein the hard treatment of Mr. Wilkes, and the cause of riots, are duly considered, and remedies provided.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1832q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1n79hf54h
Publisher
London : for the author and sold by L. Tomlinson 1768.
Language
English
Date Created
1768
Extent
[2], 59, [1] pages ; 4⁰.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T179679
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signed at end: Massinello, a pseudonym used by Joseph Cawthorne.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy is the author's copy with his signature on the title page and numerous autograph annotations throughout providing details about the circumstances of the publication of this pamphlet concerning the 'St. George's Fields Massacre' (May 10, 1768), in which government soldiers opened fire on protesters opposing the imprisonment of John Wilkes.
Princeton copy 1 Lower margin of p. 41-42 cut away.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary three quarter leather, marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Annotations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
76

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b2fd0069-30bb-451a-b599-b495959195eb/manifest