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Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British colonies

[2], 104 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 22 cm. (8vo) · Attributed to John Dickinson by the Dictionary of American biography · The letters were originally published in the Pennsylvania chronicle, December 2, 1767-February 15, 1768. Cf. Adams · First collection of all twelve letters printed in Philadelphia: David Hall and William Sellers, 1768 · Some copies were issued with the engraved portrait of Dickinson that had been advertised in the Pennsylvania Chronicle for October 17, 1768. Cf. Annual Report of the John Carter Brown Library, 1953-54, pp. 34-37 and R.T.H. Halsey's edition of Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, New York, 1903, pp. xxxviii-xlii · Two states of p. [1], 2nd count, noted: the first has x's on the outside corners of the ornaments around the initial I; and the second one has rosettes · Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-N⁴ · Engraved printer's ornaments on title page; head and tail pieces; initial

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