Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The republican judge : or, The American liberty of the press, as exhibited, explained, and exposed in the base and partial prosecution of William Cobbett, for a pretended libel against the King of Spain and his embassador, before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ; with an address to the people of England / by Peter Porcupine [i.e. W. Cobbett].
Call Number
14463.259.02
Lapidus 5.2201
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcg445cq521
Language
English
Date Created
1798
Extent
[2], 96, 2 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Armorial bookplate 'Esher.'
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free endpaper 'Michael Foot.'
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on title page 'Presented to the Institution by Ald. J. Browne.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T13713
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.
A criticism of Thomas M'Kean, chief justice of Pennsylvania.
Published in America under title: The democratic judge...
Princeton copy 2 Imperfect: t.-p. wanting. Typed t.-p. supplied from L.C. card.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Late 19th cent. panelled calf.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
113

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/afd6bee0-f4dd-404c-a286-ecc3c726034b/manifest