Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British colonies.

People / Organizations

• John Dickinson (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee-House, M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]

Added name

Bradford, William, 1719-1791, printer. Bradford, Thomas, 1745-1838, printer.

Publication year

1769

ESTC No.

W31742

Grub Street ID

342179

Description

[2], 104 p. ; 8⁰

Note

Letters signed: A farmer. Attributed to John Dickinson in the Dictionary of American biography.

"Some copies were issued with the engraved portrait of Dickinson that had been advertised in the Pennsylvania Chronicle for October 17, 1768. See: The Annual Report of the John Carter Brown Library, 1953-54, pp. 34-37 and R.T.H. Halsey's edition of Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, New York, 1903, pp. xxxviii-xlii. Two issues [i.e. states?] noted, one with x's on the outside corners of the ornaments around the initial I on p. 1 and one with rosettes."--Adams.

Postscript to last letter signed: D., i.e. John Dickinson.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: pi1 A-N?. - DO THE ROSETTES AND X'S ON P. [1] DISTINGUISH TWO STATES, OR DO TWO SEPARATE EDITIONS EXIST. TWO ISSUES SEEMS NOT TO BE ACCURATE