Search Results: a general history of connecticut from by peters samuel

Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. brown cloth, facsimile reprint of the 1877 ed. (1969), 285 pages. Lightly soil & wear to exterior; text unmarked.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. Later edition. Blue cloth, original spine label. Later edition of this history.

London: Printed for the Author, 1782. x,2,436pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Small paper repair to verso of titlepage, minutely affecting one letter of text. Some light foxing and soiling to first and last few leaves. Minor toning and foxing to rest of text. Very good. Second edition, after the first of the previous year, consisting of the first edition sheets with a cancel title. The author was a native of Hebron, Connecticut, and later rector of the Episcopal church there. "Mobbed in Connecticut for his Tory activities, Peters fled to England and, in retaliation, wrote this false and vicious misrepresentation of that commonwealth. Included were the BLUE LAWS OF THE NEW HAVEN COLONY, manufactured by his animosity, but still swallowed as true by many people" - Howes. "The first edition is very rare" - Sabin. Indeed, ESTC locates only a handful of copies of this second edition, as well - which is essentially a fiction, being simply the original sheets with a new… Read More