Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The spirit of despotism.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.870
75485.529
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcs7526p215
Publisher
Philadelphia : London, printed, re-printed by Lang and Ustick, for selves and Matthew Carey, Nov. 28, 1795.
Language
English
Date Created
1795
Extent
ix, [1], 342, [2] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo in 6s)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free endpaper 'D. C. Colesworthy.'
Princeton copy 2 Ex 75485.529: inscribed on title page 'Samuel Leake' with his booklabel on front pastedown.
Princeton copy 2 Ex 75485.529: inscribed on Samuel Leake's booklabel on front pastedown 'Bought of the estate of Samuel Leake by Peter D. Boon Jur.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W3556
Shipton & Mooney 28936
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Attributed to Knox in the Dictionary of national biography.
Signatures: [superscript pi]¹ A⁴ B-2F⁶ 2G⁴ (2G4 blank)
Title on spine: Spirit of despotism.
Pages [343]-[344] are blank.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 Ex 75485.529: Bound in contemp. three quarter leather, marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Despotism—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
365

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4eda2494-dfcc-405d-95a8-4040e6e88c68/manifest