The Pennsylvania Journal; and Weekly Advertiser. Expiring: In Hopes of a Resurrection to Life again.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Bradford 31 October 1765. 4 pp., bifolium (387 x 249 mm). Text in three columns within mourning borders. Woodcut vignettes of skulls and crossbones, ships and a coffin. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. Condition : small hole in the first leaf, short edge tears, minor browning. Provenance : Laird U. Park, Jr. (Sotheby’s New York, 29 November 2000, lot 269). the famous tombstone edition of the pennsylvania journal issued in protest of the stamp act. This graphic issue of the Pennsylvania Journal begins with a letter from Bradford announcing the suspension of publication due to the Stamp Act taking effect the following day: “… the publisher of this paper unable to bear the Burthen, has thought it expedient to stop a while, in order to deliberate, whether any Methods can be found to elude the Chains forged for us, and escape the unsupportable Slavery…” Besides the tombstone front page and mourning borders, this issue includes text running vertically in the right margin of the front page reading “Adieu, Adieu to the Liberty of the Press.” In addition, a woodcut image of a coffin on the final page includes the epitaph, “The last Remains of The Pennsylvania Journal, Which departed this Life, the 31st of October, 1765, Of a Stamp in her Vitals.” The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first British Parliamentary attempt impose a direct tax on the American colonies, calling for all legal documents, permits, pamphlets, newspapers and other publications to carry a tax stamp. Although the amount of the tax was relatively small, the Act raised the ire of the colonists who united in its opposition and raised the cry of “No taxation without representation.” Intimidation and violence against the collectors made enforcement near impossible and the Act was repealed in March 1765. “The passage of the Stamp Act transformed American opposition to British policies … It was of enormous importance in that it produced at least a surface unity among the colonies, for almost every political leader, whatever his political principles, was opposed” (Jensen, The Founding of a Nation). This issue of the Pennsylvania Journal is quite scarce, with only this copy appearing in the auction records for the last quarter century. See C. S. Brigham, American Newspapers II: p. 937.
The Pennsylvania Journal; and Weekly Advertiser. Expiring: In Hopes of a Resurrection to Life again.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Bradford 31 October 1765. 4 pp., bifolium (387 x 249 mm). Text in three columns within mourning borders. Woodcut vignettes of skulls and crossbones, ships and a coffin. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. Condition : small hole in the first leaf, short edge tears, minor browning. Provenance : Laird U. Park, Jr. (Sotheby’s New York, 29 November 2000, lot 269). the famous tombstone edition of the pennsylvania journal issued in protest of the stamp act. This graphic issue of the Pennsylvania Journal begins with a letter from Bradford announcing the suspension of publication due to the Stamp Act taking effect the following day: “… the publisher of this paper unable to bear the Burthen, has thought it expedient to stop a while, in order to deliberate, whether any Methods can be found to elude the Chains forged for us, and escape the unsupportable Slavery…” Besides the tombstone front page and mourning borders, this issue includes text running vertically in the right margin of the front page reading “Adieu, Adieu to the Liberty of the Press.” In addition, a woodcut image of a coffin on the final page includes the epitaph, “The last Remains of The Pennsylvania Journal, Which departed this Life, the 31st of October, 1765, Of a Stamp in her Vitals.” The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first British Parliamentary attempt impose a direct tax on the American colonies, calling for all legal documents, permits, pamphlets, newspapers and other publications to carry a tax stamp. Although the amount of the tax was relatively small, the Act raised the ire of the colonists who united in its opposition and raised the cry of “No taxation without representation.” Intimidation and violence against the collectors made enforcement near impossible and the Act was repealed in March 1765. “The passage of the Stamp Act transformed American opposition to British policies … It was of enormous importance in that it produced at least a surface unity among the colonies, for almost every political leader, whatever his political principles, was opposed” (Jensen, The Founding of a Nation). This issue of the Pennsylvania Journal is quite scarce, with only this copy appearing in the auction records for the last quarter century. See C. S. Brigham, American Newspapers II: p. 937.
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