One Copy in America

The True copy of a letter from the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1715.

Price: $1,000.00


About the item

One sheet, printed on recto only. 1 vols. One Copy in America. Modern boards. Slight waterstaining at lower margin, light crease from prior folding. ESTC T5948.

Item #268160

Rare printing of a public statement of Bolingbroke’s continued allegiance to England, and his reasons for his escape to France after the ascension of George I and the Jacobite uprising of 1715, which Bolingbroke was accused of supporting. ESTC locates only 3 copies in Britain, and one copy in America (Huntington). Rare.

Bolingbroke was a friend of Swift and Pope; his Essay on Man begins:

“Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;"