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Revolution, 1775-1783Showing 15 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed and sold by B. Towne.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed and sold by B. Towne.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed by John Anderson.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed and sold by J. Anderson.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed and sold by John Carter.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed and sold by J. Anderson.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed by D. Kneeland, in Queen-Street. Where also may be had the second, third, & fourth numbers.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed and sold by B. Towne.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1775, Printed by John Anderson, at his printing office at Beekman's slip, where all manner of printing is performed ...
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1774, Printed by J. Davis.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1774, Printed and sold by J. Anderson. Of whom may be had the first chapter. The third chapter will be published in eight or ten days.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1774, Printed and sold by B. Towne.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1774, Printed and sold by B. Towne.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1774, Printed and sold by John Carter.
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The first book of the American chronicles of the times.
1774, Printed by John Boyle?
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Edition Notes
The events preceding the American Revolution, related in mock-Biblical style
Caption title
By John Leacock. Leacock's play, "The fall of British tyranny," was advertised in the Constitutional gazette, July 3, 1776, as "by the author of the American chronicles of the times." Cf. Carla Mulford's Introduction to "John Leacock's The first book of the American chronicles of the times, 1774-1775" (Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1987)
"... said to be wrote by that great patriot ... S----l Adams [i.e., Samuel Adams], ESquire, a member for this province in the Grand American Continental Congress."--from an advertisement for the work in: The Wonder of wonders ... 2nd ed., Salem, Mass. : E. Russell, 1775. A portrait of Adams appears on the title page of Russell's edition of the work (Salem, 1774)
Imprint from colophon. Date of publication supplied by Alden
Bristol B3979
Shipton & Mooney 42818
Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 592
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42818)
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