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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] GALLOWAY, JOSEPH. Historical and political reflections on the rise and progress of the American rebellion.
London: G. Wilkie, 1780. First edition. 20th century pebbled leatherette. 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (20 x 12 cm); viii, 135 pp., [1] p. ads. Front joint defective, internally some minor spotting and toning, in all a clean copy.
Joseph Galloway (1731-1803) was an American-born loyalist, and perhaps the most prominent such. He proposed "A plan of a proposed Union between Great Britain and the Colonies" to the Continental Congress in 1774; it narrowly failed to pass. In 1778, he fled to England, where he remained. This pamphlet suggest, as stated on the sub-title, "the policy & necessity of offering to the Americans a system of government founded in the principles of the British Constitution," proposing in effect something like the Commonwealth system. Adams 80-32; ESTC T2256; Howes G39; Reese Revolutionary 100, 60; Sabin 26431.
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