[Perceval, John, 2nd Earl of Egmont]:

$550 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

FACTION DETECTED, BY THE EVIDENCE OF FACTS. First (Dublin) edition of this "masterly pamphlet in defence of Bath's political apostasy...which passed through a number of editions, and has been pronounced by Coxe as 'one of the best political pamphlets ever written' (Life of Sir Robert Walpole, 1798, i. 703 n.)" - DNB. "Includes refs to Spanish seizure of British merchant ships in West Indies & along coasts of Florida, Georgia, & South Carolina" - European Americana. "Claims to be an impartial view of parties at home and affairs abroad; the decay of trade, assiento contract; South Sea Co; and British colonies in America" - Kress (referring to 1743 1st, 2nd and 3rd London editions). Howes is possibly in error in calling for several 1742 London editions - the London edition and its reprints were dated 1743 and later. Among Americana references, European Americana and De Renne record the Dublin edition as the proper first, and as Perceval sat from 1731 until 1748 in the Irish House of Commons for Dingle-I-Couch in Kerry, it seems probable that the Dublin printing might enjoy a claim to priority.

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