The humble confession, declaration, recantation, and apology of Benjamin Towne, printer in Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794, author.

Contributor:

Towne, Benjamin, -1793.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16173.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Towne, Benjamin, -1793.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Anecdotes.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Satires.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Other Title:

Some truth, much wit, with a sufficient quantity of satire intermixed ...

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Robert Bell], [1778]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Satirizing Towne's facility for changing sides at opportune moments during the Revolution.

Caption title. At head of title: Some truth, much wit, with a sufficient quantity of satire intermixed, entitles, the following laughable composition, which hath been handed about in manuscript at Philadelphia, to preservation in print with other works of greater magnitude.--It is reported to be written by J--n W--th--sp--n, D.D. one of the members of the American Congress.--

Also issued as part of: Miscellanies for sentimentalists ... Philadelphia : Robert Bell, 1778 (Evans 15914).

With an advertisement for "Miscellanies for sentimentalists," for sale at Bell's book-store, pages [6].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 16173).

Cited in:

Evans 16173

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3835

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