LC copy has bookplate: Force Collection.
Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 302
ESTC T4118
Compiled by Thomas Hollis.
Signatures: [A]² B-K⁴ L⁴(L3+chi1) M-O⁴ P1 R-Y⁴.
"Includes the petition to the King of Jan. 20, 1768; the letter of Jan. 12, 1768, to Dennis Deberdt; letters to Shelburne, Conway, Camden, Chatham, and others--most of these papers being written by Samuel Adams; Joseph Warren's attack on Bernard from the Boston gazette, and the Dissertation on the canon and feudal law, attributed here to Jeremy Gridley, but written in fact by John Adams"--J. Winsor, Narr. and crit. hist., v. 6, 1888, p. 83.
"Postscript" (p. 143-158) contains Benjamin Franklin's "Causes of the American discontents before 1768" originally printed in the London Chronicle of Jan. 7, 1768. Signed at end: F.S. [Franklin's Seal]. Cf. Ford.
Also issued as vol. 2, no. 6 in: A collection of tracts, on the subjects of taxing the British colonies in America, and regulating their trade. London : Printed for J. Almon, 1773.
LC copy imperfect: p. [3-4] wanting.