The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So Called. With an Epistle Concerning the Whiggs, Tories, and New Converts Number LVII, Monday, February 15, 1714

by Sir Richard Steele

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First edition

First edition. Woodcut title vignette. ii , 22 pp. 4to. Removed. Fine, in gray card folder. Rothschild 1952. Item #308149 The final number of the first series of Steele's journal The Englishman, published just prior to his expulsion from the House of Commons on 18 March for sedition. With Queen Anne's health failing and concern among Whigs that the Tories would back the Catholic Pretender, Steel advocated for

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