Letters From General Washington To Several Of His Friends, In June And July 1776; In Which is Set Forth an Interesting View of American Politics, at That All-Important Period.

[WASHINGTON, George]; Benjamin Franklin Bache.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 146670

Philadelphia: The Federal Press, 1795.

Rare 1795 printing of this piece of royalist propaganda. Octavo, bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, frontispiece portrait of General George Washington. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, toning to the front and rear free endpapers.

These letters, falsely attributed to General George Washington, were originally published in 1777 to discredit Washington's support for the American Revolution and to encourage the war party in Parliament. They were first published in America in New York the following year. This 1795 Philadelphia edition has been attributed to the anti-Federalist journalist, publisher, and grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin Bache.