SEDITION AND DEFAMATION DISPLAY'D: IN A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF THE CRAFTSMAN.
London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, Jan. 1731. First edition.
Octavo. (approx. 20 cm). [2], viii, 48 pp. Complete with half-title. Disbound; woodcut title vignette, initials, and ornaments. Notation in 18th century hand on half-title, referring to the Dedication, “Suppos’d by Lo[rd] Harvey [sic].” Very good or better.
First edition. The dedication preface contains a scathing attack on William Pulteney, who then mistakenly attributed authorship to John, Lord Hervey and responded with A Proper Reply, culminating in a duel (both combatants were uninjured). The true author was Sir William Yonge, Sir Robert Walpole’s lieutenant, notoriously disliked by George II. The text includes a pointed reference to losses sustained by British merchants in the West Indies on the lower quarter of page 13.
ESTC T47414.
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