Adams, JohnA Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778. Philadelphia: William Cobbett, 1797 3 vols., 8vo (203 x 126 mm). Frontispiece portrait of John Adams after the painting by John Singleton Copley, list of subscribers, half-title to vol. 2; preliminaries of vol. 1 with some worm damage, margin of frontis. just touched, scattered spotting and browning, title of vol. 3 browned. Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece, gilt; rebacked, boards worn and soiled. Third Edition, one of three American editions, the first edition having been published in London in 1787 while Adams was serving as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. The book was written to a considerable extent in reaction to the radical theories of French minister Baron Anne Robert Turgot, who espoused absolute authority for a single legislature. Adams drew on history and literature to examine various republics (modern democratic, modern aristocratic, monarchical, etc.), astutely arguing the case for checks and balances in government that he had previously championed in his Thoughts on Government (1776). PROVENANCENathan Worden (bookplate, name crossed out) — P. B. Aldridge (early ownership inscription) REFERENCEESTC W20115; Evans 31689-31691; Howes A60; cf. Federal Hundred 11
Adams, JohnA Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778. Philadelphia: William Cobbett, 1797 3 vols., 8vo (203 x 126 mm). Frontispiece portrait of John Adams after the painting by John Singleton Copley, list of subscribers, half-title to vol. 2; preliminaries of vol. 1 with some worm damage, margin of frontis. just touched, scattered spotting and browning, title of vol. 3 browned. Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece, gilt; rebacked, boards worn and soiled. Third Edition, one of three American editions, the first edition having been published in London in 1787 while Adams was serving as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. The book was written to a considerable extent in reaction to the radical theories of French minister Baron Anne Robert Turgot, who espoused absolute authority for a single legislature. Adams drew on history and literature to examine various republics (modern democratic, modern aristocratic, monarchical, etc.), astutely arguing the case for checks and balances in government that he had previously championed in his Thoughts on Government (1776). PROVENANCENathan Worden (bookplate, name crossed out) — P. B. Aldridge (early ownership inscription) REFERENCEESTC W20115; Evans 31689-31691; Howes A60; cf. Federal Hundred 11
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