Walsh, Robert:

$750 · Offered by William Reese Company

AN APPEAL FROM THE JUDGMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN RESPECTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PART FIRST, CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF THEIR MERITS AND WRONGS AS COLONIES; AND STRICTURES UPON THE ... First British edition, published the same year as the Philadelphia first edition. The Philadelphia edition is a rather common book - this London edition is far scarcer, likely because of its overwhelmingly negative reception when published there. The work covers a wide variety of topics, including early colonial history, relations with Indians, and slavery. Great Britain is often held to be responsible for most of the ills incurred. Walsh was a journalist and the last editor of the American Register. The present work "brought congratulatory notes from Jefferson, John Adams, and John Quincy Adams...but occasioned denunciatory notices in British publications" - DAB.

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