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Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America. To Which are Added, an Appendix and Postcript, Containing a State of the National Debt, an Estimate of the Money Drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War.
Edinburgh: [By Permission of the Author] Printed for J. Wood and J. Dickson, 1776,
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The Eighth Edition, Newly Corrected . octavo, 94 pp., complete with half-title. Removed from bound volume, text browned, else very good. An important work, published early in the year of American Independence. The preface to the First edition (reprinted in this eighth edition) is dated Feb. 8, 1776; the preface to this edition follows and is dated March 26th, 1776. It was reprinted in Britain in at least 13 editions, in America it was reprinted at Philadelphia, Boston, new York, and Charleston, in 1776. It also appeared in French and German editions in 1776 and 1777. Sabin 65452; Adams American Controversy 76-118r; Howes P-586, noting: "Price, intimate friend of Franklin, was the most influential British advocate of American independence." For this work, the Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library quotes the Monthly Review: "The author of these observations must be ranked among the most respectable writers on the affairs of America. He does not attempt to engage our attention by the specious and flaming declamation of a party zealot, or the factious invective and rant of modern patriotism. In him we see the warm pleader united with the sound reasoner, the intelligent politician, and (above all) the independent man, the uninfluenced friend of his country." JCB, Nos. 2304-2309. See also, Dictionary of National Biography XVI:334-37
