8vo (200 x 122 mm).  (Title very slightly soiled, a few leaves trimmed close just shaving catchwords.) 20th century calf gilt (small tear at head of spine, light wear, front flyleaf disbound). Provenance: A few early 20th-century annotations on flyleaves.

FIRST LONDON EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the balance of the text uncorrected, of one of the most significant precursors to the Declaration of Independence.  The pamphlet reprints the Declaration of Causes and Necessity (first published by William and Thomas Bradford in Philadelphia in the same year), and three other texts first published by the Bradfords: The Twelve United Colonies...to the Inhabitants of Great Britain; The Olive Branch Petition; and An Address...to the People of Ireland.  This issue was presumably subsidized by Richard Champion, an American sympathizer and ally of Edmund Burke, and the printer appeals to American sympathizers on the title-page: "Read with Candor : Judge with Impartiality." RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 3 examples of this pamphlet have sold at auction in the last 45 years.  Adams, American Controversy, 75-149b; Sabin 15522.