Sammelband of 14 contemporary publications concerning the Embargo Act.
Various places, various printers, 1808-1809. 14 volumes bound in 1, 8vo (5.13 x 8.63 inches), early calf, leather spine label printed in gilt, “The Times,” 27, [1]; 12; 7, [1]; 15, [1]; 8; 16; 12; 16; 7, [1]; 11, [1]; 22, [2]; 32; 7, [1]; 17, [1] pages.
Ink autograph contents leaf bound in, running pagination added in contemporary ink autograph, with occasional annotation and commentary in the same hand and the ink signature scattered throughout of John Stone. Joints somewhat cracked but sound, with the boards a bit bowed and the calf somewhat rubbed; some light foxing and toning; a good, sound copy. Item #20479
[Anonymous].
No. I. The Times; a Poem, Addressed to the Inhabitants of New-England and of the State of New-York, Particularly on the Subject of the Present Anti-Commercial System of the National Administration. By Miles Standish, jun.
Plymouth [i.e., New York?]: Printed for the Author, 1809. Stoddard & Whitesell 899; American Imprints 18680; Sabin 90167. 27, [1] pages. First edition.
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[Pickering, Timothy].
Mr. Pickering’s Speech in the Senate of the United States, on the Resolution Offered by Mr. Hillhouse to Repeal the Several Acts Laying an Embargo, November 30, 1808 [caption title].
[United States: n. p., 1808]. 12 pages. American Imprints 15941. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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Mr. Pickering’s Speech, in the Senate, December 21, 1808. On the Bill making further provision for enforcing the Embargo [caption title; imprint from the foot of the text:]
Baltimore: Printed by J. Robinson, office of the Federal Republican, [1808?]. 7, [1] pages. American Imprints 15942. The only edition of this December 21 address noted in American Imprints.
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[Hillhouse, James].
Mr Hillhouse’s Speech on the Resolution to Repeal the Embargo, November 29, 1808 [caption title].
[Boston?: n. p., 1808?]. 15, [1] pages. American Imprints 15226. The only edition noted in American Imprints.
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Mr. Hillhouse’s Speech, in the Senate, on the Resolution to Repeal the Embargo, December 2d, 1808: in Answer to Mr. Giles’s Second Speech, Delivered on the Same Day [caption title].
[Baltimore?: Printed by J. Robinson?, 1808]. 8 pages. American Imprints 15227. Seemingly the only edition of the December 2 address noted in American Imprints.
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Mr. Hillhouse’s Speech, in the Senate, December 21, On the Bill making further provision for enforcing the Embargo [caption title; imprint at the foot of the text:]
Baltimore: Printed by John Robinson, office of the Federal Republican, [1809]. 16 pages. American Imprints 17748. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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Mr. Hillhouse’s Speech, in the Senate. Monday, February 21, 1809. On Mr. Giles’ Non-Intercourse Bill [caption title].
[Baltimore?: Printed by J. Robinson?, 1809]. 12 pages. American Imprints 17750. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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[Lloyd, James].
Mr. Lloyd’s Speeches in the Senate of the United States on Mr. Hillhouse’s Resolution to Repeal the Embargo Laws, November 21, 1808 [caption title].
[Washington, D. C.: n. p., 1808?]. 16 pages. American Imprints 15446. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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Mr. Lloyd’s Speech, in the Senate, Monday, Dec. 19. On the bill making further provisions for Enforcing the Embargo [caption title].
[Washington, D. C.: n. p., 1808?]. 7, [1] pages. American Imprints 15444. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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Mr. Lloyd’s Speech in the Senate of the U. States, February 21, On the Bill interdicting an intercourse with Great-Britain and France [caption title].
[Washington, D. C.?: n. p., 1809]. 11, [1] pages. American Imprints 17927. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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[Bayard, James].
Mr. Bayard’s Speech, upon his Motion to Amend the Resolution Offered by Mr. Giles, by Striking out that Part which is in Italics. Delivered in the Senate of the United States. Tuesday, February 14, 1809 [caption title].
[Washington, D.C.: n. p., 1809]. 22, [2] pages. American Imprints 16961. Seemingly preceded by a 21-page edition.
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[Gardenier, Barent].
Mr. Gardinier’s [sic] speech in the House of Representatives of the United States, on Foreign Relations, While under the Consideration of Mr. Campbell’s Resolutions, December 1808 [caption title; imprint at the foot of the text:]
[Boston]: Russell & Cutler, Printers, [1808]. 32 pages. Traces of wax wafer to the first page. American Imprints 15084. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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[Goodrich, Chauncey].
Speech of Mr. Goodrich, in the Senate, December 19th, 1808, on the Third Reading of the Bill Making Further Provisions for Enforcing the Embargo [caption title].
[Washington, D. C.?: n. p., 1808?]. 7, [1] pages. American Imprints 15134. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
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[Tallmadge, Benjamin].
Speech of Mr. Tallmadge, in the House of Representatives, Friday, January 27, 1809, on his motion to postpone indefinitely, the Bill providing an additional Military Force [caption title].
[Washington, D.C.?: n. p., 1809]. 17, [1] pages. American Imprints 18720. Only edition noted in American Imprints.
An excellent collection of material arguing against the Embargo and arguments (primarily in the Senate) for its repeal, here collected by an engaged reader with Federalist sympathies prone to such annotations as, “In connection with Col. Pickering’s former speech on the resolution to repeal the [e]mbargo, it conclusively proves that our [a]dministration, are under the control of Bonoparte.” Stone seems to include the satirical verses from Miles Standish, Jr. as a kind of comic epigraph to his political collection. The specific identity of the compiler is uncertain, though one could do worse than to cast an eye upon the Salem, Mass. distiller (presumably with an interest in trade) John Stone (1781-1849), who later served as the lightly-disguised foil Deacon Giles for George Barrell Cheever’s litigiously-entangled temperance tale.
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