London printed: New York-Reprinted: by Childs and Swaine, 1792; 1794. First American editions. First American editions of two separately printed parts of Barlow's most important prose work. "[Advice to the Privileged Orders] forcibly presents the doctrine of the responsibility of the State, a doctrine as admissably true today as it..... Read More about Advice to the Privileged Orders, in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity...

Hartford, Connecticut: June 14, 1787. Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor. An important letter on the state of art and literature in early America. Hayley was a major influence on Barlow. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary...