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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Boston Gazette) |
| Author: |
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| Title: |
Three Original Copies of the Newspaper that Fathered the American Revolution: The Boston Gazette |
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Boston |
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| Date: |
1766 |
| Item # : |
205351 |
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| Sale Number |
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415 |
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25 |
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| Americana - Cartography - Travel & Exploration |
| Sale Date |
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11/05/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1020 |
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| Description: |
| Issues of January 27, 1766; February 17, 1766; June 16, 1766. In special leather presentation folder, with printed title and text, "Given on Christmas Day, 1954, to John M. McClelland, all his life a newspaperman in the country that newspapers helped make free, by his son, John M. McClelland Jr." The leaves are in plastic sleeves from which the tape has perished. 15¼x9¾, in flexible leather stamped in gilt. |
| Three issues of this important and provocative Boston newspaper, to which Samuel Adams and other rabble rousers often contributed, anonymously or pseudonymously. It was at the offices of the Boston Gazette that the Boston Tea Party was planned. Among the articles in the present issues is a letter from the "Early of Clarendon" (presumably Samuel Adams) to William Pym (issue of Ja. 27, 1766), discussing the British constitution and its sources of legitimacy, including the telling phrase "All men are born equal: and the drift of the British Constitution is to preserve as much of this equality, as is compatible with the people's security against foreign invasion and domestic usurpation..." Both McClellands, Jr. and Sr., were longtime newspapermen in the Pacific Northwest, with Sr. going to work on the Longview News in 1923, and his son joining him at the paper in 1939, and the firm expanded to include many local Washington newspapers. |
| Condition: |
| Very good condition. |
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