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The humble confession, declaration, recantation, and apology of Benjamin Towne, printer in Philadelphia [electronic resource]
Bib ID 3378620
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
Author
Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
 
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Description [Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell, 1778] 
5, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) 
Series

Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 16173.

Notes

Satirizing Towne's facility for changing sides at opportune moments during the Revolution.

Caption title. At head of title: Some truth, much wit, with a sufficient quantity of satire intermixed, entitles, the following laughable composition, which hath been handed about in manuscript at Philadelphia, to preservation in print with other works of greater magnitude.--It is reported to be written by J--n W--th--sp--n, D.D. one of the members of the American Congress.--

Also issued as part of: Miscellanies for sentimentalists ... Philadelphia : Robert Bell, 1778 (Evans 15914).

With an advertisement for "Miscellanies for sentimentalists," for sale at Bell's book-store, p. [6].

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Cited In

Evans 16173

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3835

Reproduction Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 16173). Mode of access : World Wide Web. 
Subjects Towne, Benjamin, -1793.  |  United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes.
Form/genre Satires.  |  Booksellers' advertisements
Place United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Other authors/contributors Towne, Benjamin, -1793
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Some truth, much wit, with a sufficient quantity of satire intermixed ...

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