Fifteen Discourses Upon Doctrinal, Connected Subjects with practical Improvements, Viz. Recapitulation and Reflections relative to the Whole

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In fair condition. Front board detached. Boards are quite worn with scuffing, rubbing to corners. Pitting to leather on front and rear boards. Chipping to spine extremes with binding exposed. Original spine label is missing. Old hand signature on front flyleaf. Non-archival tape repair to front gutter. Light worming to pastedown. Interior typically age-toned with nominal foxing. Old hand marginalia in first few leaves. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. Colonial American Imprint. Benjamin Edes was a journalist and political agitator. He is best known, along with John Gill, as the publisher of the Boston Gazette, a newspaper which sparked and financed the Boston Tea Party and was influential during the American Revolutionary War. Edes was part of The Sons of Liberty, a secret society of American patriots in Revolutionary America. Governor Bernard advised the arrest of both Edes and Gill as publishers of sedition. Edes fought British policy through written attacks on the Stamp Act, the tea tax, the Townsend Acts and other oppressive measures. During the Siege of Boston, Edes escaped to Watertown, Massachusetts where he continued to publish the Gazette until 1798, 43 years after he started. John Mellen was minister for over thirty years at the Second Paris of Lancaster until his dismissal in 1774. The controversy being over music played in church and his affiliations with Tory views. N° de ref. del artículo RAREA1765BSTK

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