fourth edition, octavo, viii, [1] - 118 pp., bound in late nineteenth century ¾ blue calf and cloth boards, t.e.g., light scattered toning to text, else a very good copy.

"These political essays, in the form of seventeen letters, first appeared anonymously in the Boston newspapers. They were then supposed to be from the pen of Jonathan Sewell, Attorney-General of the Province of Massachusetts. They took the side of the government against the colonies, and are written with great ingenuity. Tudor, in his ‘Life of Otis,' chap. 29, characterizes them as ‘The most able papers on the Government side of the dispute.' John Adams wrote, ‘On my return from Congress in November, 1774, I found the Massachusetts Gazette teeming with political speculation and Massachusettensis shining like to the moon among the lesser stars. I instantly knew him to be my friend Sewall, and was told he excited great exultation among the Tories, and many gloomy apprehensions among the Whigs.' Adams wrote a series of articles in reply under the signature of ‘Novanglus.'  However, it is now ascertained that these letters were written by Daniel Leonard.       Sabin 40100; Howes L-258