Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Taxation no tyranny : an answer to the resolutions and address of the American Congress.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1779
2004-1468N
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcwp988w04k
Publisher
London : Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1775.
Language
English
Date Created
1775
Extent
[4], 91, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 Ex copy: Bookplate of William Egbert Leveson.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2; Gift; Ex copy: Aaron Burr material collected by the late C.P. Greenough Fuller and presented in his memory by his brother-in-laws, William A. Kirkland '19 and Dudley C. Sharp '27; 1957.
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T141339
Todd, "Concealed editions of Samuel Johnson", Book Collector ii (1953), p.62
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Considered by Bancroft to exemplify the tone of public sentiment prevailing in England at the time. Several of Johnson's contemporaries responded in print pointing out the fallacies in his reasoning.
In this edition (the second, although not specified as such) p.8 has press figure 5.
T.p. vignette.
Princeton copy 2 Ex copy lacks half t.p.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 Ex copy: Marbled boards, leather spine and corners tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, and all edges yellow.
Princeton copy 1 Early 20th cent. polished calf; marbled endpapers, stamped on front free endpaper 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, England.'
Princeton copy 1 Bound in full calf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Taxation—England—Public opinion
Taxation—United States

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/ffac4529-2f1d-450e-9d3b-6845b7beef85/manifest