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A speech, in behalf of the constitution, against the suspending and dispensing prerogative, &c.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1767 Wil (b.w.) Af.319.3 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 136p. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for J. Almon, 1767.
- Notes:
- "Sometimes attributed to [George] Grenville, but said to have been written by one Macintosh with the assistance of Lyttelton and Temple" (DNB, v. 12, p. 370).
- A reissue of the first edition, with sheets P-S reset.
- P.109 begins: minister of government, tho' in an office of great state.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Wilkes, Letter to his grace, q.v.; item 3 in volume. Modern half sheep; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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