8vo (200 x 124 mm). Collation: A-Q4; pp. [i]-xviii, 1-118 [i.e. 110, pp.79-86 omitted in the pagination]. Modern quarter calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, marbled boards, uncut.

Second American edition, published in the same year as the first edition with the Charles-town, and with the catchword "mean-" on p.3, and the  catchword "of" on p.27, and omitting pp.79-86 from the pagination.  De Renne, Howes and Sabin suggest that this is possibly a London imprint, although Church considers it to be a genuine Charleston imprint and of great typographical importance and rarity. The collation of the present copy conforms with the Hoe and Streeter copies.

Tailfer's pamphlet constitutes a forceful critique of General James Oglethorpe and the Georgia government. Talifer was the leader of an outspoken group of malcontents in Savannah who were driven out of the colony by Oglethorpe and took refuge in Charleston in 1740. "The most interesting of all books about Georgia written in the colonial period, for attack is almost always more interesting than praise. The authors...give here their account of what they felt to be Oglethorpe’s despotism. The work is a masterpiece of invective and one of the cornerstones of the historical literature of Georgia" (Streeter Sale 1147). Church 940; De Renne I, p.95-96; Howes T-6; Sabin 94216; Willigham Georgiana 3. For a copy of Stephens' response to Tailfer's tract, see lots 358 and 359.