DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. [ALMON, JOHN, EDITOR ]. THE REMEMBRANCER; OR, IMPARTIAL REPOSITORY OF PUBLIC EVENTS. PART I [-III]. FOR THE YEAR 1776 [I.E., VOLUMES 2-4]. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. ALMON 1776-77. 3 VOLS., 8VO, ORIGINAL SHEEP-BACKED BOARDS, SPINES GILT-LETTERED, UNTRIMMED, VOL. 2 (1776 PART I) LARGELY UNOPENED, FULL ORANGE MOROCCO FOLDING CASE BY THE HERITAGE BINDERY, HINGES CRACKED, BACKSTRIPS CHIPPED, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING, ONE OR TWO LEAVES DARKENED, A FEW INSIGNIFICANT MARGINAL TEARS OR SMALL PERFORATIONS . FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, part III with engraved frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin (usually bound in vol. 5, "for the year 1777") and 2 engraved maps. [ With :] [Another copy of vols. 2 and 4, plus vols. 5 and 9-17], 1776-1784; [ and with ] A Collection of Interesting Papers, relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America... from 1764 to 1775, 1777, all London: for J. Almon [and J. Debrett (vols. 11-17), together 13 vols., original sheep-backed boards, untrimmed, backstrips worn and chipped, hinges cracked . FIRST EDITIONS, engraved portrait, 3 engraved maps. The 17 volumes of The Remembrancer , published by John Almon and his successor J. Debrett from 1775 to 1784, is "one of the chief and... most reliable sources of information regarding the revolution. It is a veritable mine of information, containing every authentic paper relative to the American Revolution, whether published in England or America, by the British Ministry or the American Congress, and is even today the original authority from which much of our information is obtained... The collection has a sympathetic leaning towards the cause of the colonists, or at least against the course pursued by the ministry"--Church 1115. The Declaration of Independence is printed in vol. 3 (part II, 1776), pp. 258-60. Church 1115 and 1141; Howes A182; Sabin 955 and 951. (16)
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. [ALMON, JOHN, EDITOR ]. THE REMEMBRANCER; OR, IMPARTIAL REPOSITORY OF PUBLIC EVENTS. PART I [-III]. FOR THE YEAR 1776 [I.E., VOLUMES 2-4]. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. ALMON 1776-77. 3 VOLS., 8VO, ORIGINAL SHEEP-BACKED BOARDS, SPINES GILT-LETTERED, UNTRIMMED, VOL. 2 (1776 PART I) LARGELY UNOPENED, FULL ORANGE MOROCCO FOLDING CASE BY THE HERITAGE BINDERY, HINGES CRACKED, BACKSTRIPS CHIPPED, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING, ONE OR TWO LEAVES DARKENED, A FEW INSIGNIFICANT MARGINAL TEARS OR SMALL PERFORATIONS . FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, part III with engraved frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin (usually bound in vol. 5, "for the year 1777") and 2 engraved maps. [ With :] [Another copy of vols. 2 and 4, plus vols. 5 and 9-17], 1776-1784; [ and with ] A Collection of Interesting Papers, relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America... from 1764 to 1775, 1777, all London: for J. Almon [and J. Debrett (vols. 11-17), together 13 vols., original sheep-backed boards, untrimmed, backstrips worn and chipped, hinges cracked . FIRST EDITIONS, engraved portrait, 3 engraved maps. The 17 volumes of The Remembrancer , published by John Almon and his successor J. Debrett from 1775 to 1784, is "one of the chief and... most reliable sources of information regarding the revolution. It is a veritable mine of information, containing every authentic paper relative to the American Revolution, whether published in England or America, by the British Ministry or the American Congress, and is even today the original authority from which much of our information is obtained... The collection has a sympathetic leaning towards the cause of the colonists, or at least against the course pursued by the ministry"--Church 1115. The Declaration of Independence is printed in vol. 3 (part II, 1776), pp. 258-60. Church 1115 and 1141; Howes A182; Sabin 955 and 951. (16)
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