Junius Junior John Allen (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foolscap8vo, 192 pp. Original brown blind-stamped boards, lettered white. Tanning to the paper otherwise a VG tight copy. Light book, postage will be reduced to cost on processing.

Leather Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Attractively bound in period-style (but modern) 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt with black morocco label (text has browning, marginal smudges and some staining). In 'The Spirit of Liberty,' Allen (writing under the pseudonym 'Junius') called for preservation of England's constituion and liberties, in part through restoring then-reformer John Wilkes (known for his support of the rights of American colonists) to Parliament, which is then followed by a substantial discussion of baptism. Shortly after this work was published, John Allen moved to America, where for some nine months he preached at Boston's Second Baptist Church. During Allen's stay there, on Thanksgiving Day in 1772, he delivered a sermon that re-ignited tensions between colonists and the Empire. The sermon, published widely under the title 'An Oration, Upon the Beauties of Liberty, Or the Essential Rights of the Americans', went on to become the sixth most popular pre-independence pamphlet in British America. PROVENANCE: Period ink signature of William Wheble on title page. Notes:.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Full title reads: THE SPIRIT of LIBERTY:OR, Junlus's Loyal Address. being a KEY to the ENGLISH CABINET; or, An Humble Dissertation upon the Rights and Liberties of the ancient Britons. A political Tale upon the Characters of an arbitrary Ministry both in Church and State, the Unhappiness that flows therefrom to us and to our Children, as to the Strength of the Constitution 3 the Spirit of the Laws, the Lives and Liberties of the People, humbly addressed to his Majesty. By J U N I U S, Junior. To which is added, A POLEMICAL TALE; or, The Christians Winter Piece : Wherein the great Contention among the Christians is decided, respecting the Privileges of the Magna Charta of that ancient City of Salem ; in which the Spirit, Liberties, Laws, and Dignities of that ancient City are again revived and let forth in their primitive Life, Beauty, and Order. THE WHOLE BEING An Enigmatical Key to the original Rife, Kiftory, Progress, Possessin, and sacred Treal arcs of those ancient People who were first called Christians at Antioch. Leather spine 5 raised bands around decorative compartments, marbled boards. Former owner's signature dated 1780 on FFEP. Given the nature and history of the work, it is not surprising that no printer is given, other than the statement of "printed in 1770" . Outer boards are quite rubbed and edgeworn, leather on backstrip a little crackled, but actually quite good, style of print appropriate for the period. Inner pages only slightly age toned.