[Johnson, Richard]:

$600 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. CONTAINING A REVIEW OF THE CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS; THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE BRITISH COLONIES, THEIR RISE AND PROGRESS, FROM THE EARLIEST ... A later American edition, after the Bennington, Vermont printing of 1793. This Philadelphia printing does not include the six plates found in other editions. The text was originally published in London in 1780. The preface states: "To point out the gradual steps by which America finally obtained independence, to describe those terrible scenes of rapine, blood and slaughter...are principally the objects of this epitome...We have endeavored to divest ourselves of every spark of national prejudice...." Though long attributed to William Cooper, modern scholarship has shown the author to be Richard Johnson (see M.J.P. Weedon, "Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery" in The Library, Fifth Series, Vol. 4 (1949), pp.25-63.

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