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Advertsement [sic] : I beg leave to take this opportunity of informing the publick, that I have long had in my mind, and have in part compil'd a work ... Proposals, for printing by subscription, a General history of the lies raised and propogated [sic] by the Pr--------y faction, since the year 1753; with remarks; in four volumes, in folio.

Author/creator Hunt, Isaac, approximately 1742-1809
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Andrew Steuart], [1766]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 33 x 23 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10338. ^A478749
General note"Subscriptions are taken in, by the booksellers ... and by the editor, Jack North-Wester, living at the sign of the White-Oak, in Heart-of-Oak-Street." Evans attributes the proposals and another pamphlet (Evans 10339), printed for the pseudonymous Jack Northwester, to Isaac Hunt, author of several political essays attacking the proprietary government of Pennsylvania.
General noteDated from inscription on recto of American Antiquarian Society copy: 1st of 8ber 1766. Ascribed to the press of Andrew Steuart, of Philadelphia, by Evans.
General noteAlthough the proposals state that the whole will be published before the first day of October, 1767, there is no evidence that the work was ever issued.
References Evans 10338
References Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2189
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. First series ; no. 10338).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formProspectuses.
Other titleAdvertisement. I beg leave to take this opportunity of informing the publick ...
Other titleAdvertsement. I beg leave to take this opportunity of informing the publick ...
Other titleProposals, for printing by subscription, a General history of the lies ...

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