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First official folio printing of the Stamp Act, 1765
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An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp duties and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America
First official folio printing of the Stamp Act, 1765
STAMP ACT – Anno Regni Georgii III regis … An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp duties and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same. London: Mark Baskett, 1765.
The first official folio edition of the Stamp Act: "the crystallizing moment of colonial opposition" (Revolutionary Hundred). The outrage over the passing of this Act, by which Great Britain attempted to settle their French and Indian War debts through punitive taxes on the American colonists, was immediate and ferocious, leading to its repeal the following year. "The bitterness engendered by the Act lingered on and, coupled with subsequent British laws including the Townshend Acts and Intolerable Acts, became some of the many grievances enunciated in the Declaration of Independence" (ibid.). Howes and Sabin describe an octavo edition printed the same year by Baskett. Revolutionary Hundred 4; ESTC N56844; Howes A-285; Sabin 1606; Church 1054; Streeter sale 737.
Folio (309 x 191mm). 17 leaves: title page + pp. 279-310. Woodcut arms on title and factotum initial (lightly toned). 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards (a little worn at extremities). Provenance: Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate).
First official folio printing of the Stamp Act, 1765
STAMP ACT – Anno Regni Georgii III regis … An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp duties and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same. London: Mark Baskett, 1765.
The first official folio edition of the Stamp Act: "the crystallizing moment of colonial opposition" (Revolutionary Hundred). The outrage over the passing of this Act, by which Great Britain attempted to settle their French and Indian War debts through punitive taxes on the American colonists, was immediate and ferocious, leading to its repeal the following year. "The bitterness engendered by the Act lingered on and, coupled with subsequent British laws including the Townshend Acts and Intolerable Acts, became some of the many grievances enunciated in the Declaration of Independence" (ibid.). Howes and Sabin describe an octavo edition printed the same year by Baskett. Revolutionary Hundred 4; ESTC N56844; Howes A-285; Sabin 1606; Church 1054; Streeter sale 737.
Folio (309 x 191mm). 17 leaves: title page + pp. 279-310. Woodcut arms on title and factotum initial (lightly toned). 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards (a little worn at extremities). Provenance: Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate).
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