London: Printed. Boston, Re-Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, 1774. Second or third Boston printing (with initial "N" on p. 5). 8vo. (3)-64 pp.; lacking half-title. Stab-sewn gatherings, gatherings loose from signature C; all edges untrimmed; scattered light spotting; in quarter green morocco fall-down-back box. Adams, American Independence 134g or 134f; Evans 13583 or 13584; Howes R-372

Boston printing of Baron Matthew Robinson's important polemic against Lord North's North American policies. Sympathetic to the American colonists, Robinson's pamphlet was popular with Americans and went through five American editions in 1774, the same year the first edition was published in London.