The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper so called. With an Epistle concerning the Whiggs, Tories, and New Converts.
London: Printed for Ferd: Burleigh, 1714.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First edition. [2], 22 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later drab wrappers. Title-page soiled, head margins closely cropped, affecting some page numbers. Rothschild 1952.
Item #260428
"This is No. LVII, published on the 15th February 1714 (numbered and dated on the first page of text), and the last of the first series of The Englishman, which started on 6 October 17l3. It was associated with The Crisis when Steele was tried and expelled from the House for sedition. Steele published a second series of thirty-eight numbers, between 11 July and 12 November 1715. The first series was reprinted as a volume in 1714, and the second in 1716.” (Rothschild Catalogue).
